Senior Strategy and Operations Manager, YouTube Marketing

About the job

YouTube Marketing’s Office of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) enables our team to deliver exceptional marketing by empowering our leaders, driving operational excellence, and bringing the magic to our work everyday. As a Senior Strategy and Operations Manager, you will serve as a strategic and operational leader. You will act as functional Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for YouTube Marketing (YTM), defining and driving the organization's people, organization and culture strategy, in close partnership with the director of strategy and operations of YTM.

In this role, you will lead high-stakes programs, while leading people, organization and culture strategy. You will also shape and drive YTM governance and executive-level rhythms of business. You will own review forums such as weekly decision forums with YouTube’s CMO, and will partner with the CMO to define and lead executive communications. You will build operational efficiencies, and maintain a high standard of excellence. You will act as a culture keeper who is passionate about empowering high-impact teams.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $171000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the YTM CMO and director of strategy on high-priority initiatives, delivering briefings and strategic analysis/insights/recommendations for executive leadership.
• Partner with people operation and YTM’s Strategy and Operations (S&O) director to shape and drive YTM’s people and organization strategy, including initiatives related to people development and AI-enabled workforce transformation.
• Oversee the overall office of the CMO operating model, defining and driving central executive governance (including decide/input/notify frameworks for business priorities).
• Partner with the Strategic Operations team to modernize the rhythm of the business and executive forums, elevating them from transactional coordination to strategic, AI-enabled decision-making spaces.
• Define and ensure execution of YTM’s culture and communications strategy (internal and external), including the goal, narrative, culture shifts and change management required to enable YTM’s AI transformation and other organizational redesigns.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategy, corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree (MBA/Master's).
• 4 years of experience developing organizational strategies, executing change management and executive communications.
• 3 years of experience working directly with C-suite /VP-level executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience guiding teams through operational transitions, organizational modernizations, or strategic reorganizations.
  
• Experience leading executive operations, chief of staff responsibilities, or a central strategy team in a global technology or media organization.
  
• Proven ability to navigate highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments, and translate complex problems into structured, actionable operating models.
  
• Strong collaborative skills, with a demonstrated ability to foster culture and coordinate initiatives across multi-location global pods.
• Advanced communication, narrative-building, and executive presence, with a track record of authoring briefs and presentations for C-level leadership.
  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategy, corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree (MBA/Master's).
• 4 years of experience developing organizational strategies, executing change management and executive communications.
• 3 years of experience working directly with C-suite /VP-level executive stakeholders.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.