Strategy Associate, YouTube
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a business or quantitative discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in management consulting or other equivalent business strategy experience.
- Experience in analytics.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience communicating and influencing a range of audiences, including executives.
- Experience with financial modeling, SQL, and data visualization.
- Experience working in tech or media industries.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, financial modeling, and presentation skills.
- Exceptional business judgement and demonstrated impact in large-scale strategic initiatives.
About the job
The YouTube Strategy, Analytics and Finance team’s mission is to make YouTube more valuable by identifying and steering the business towards the biggest opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions and enabling effective implementation. Within this group, the Strategy team works at the center of the action partnering directly with executive level product management leaders who serve as our key stakeholders to drive high-impact, platform-wide strategic decisions.
The team owns projects that shape the future of YouTube, driving recommendations on new trends, opportunities, and challenges from responses to major industry shifts like generative AI and short-form video, to driving growth from new business models like shopping and subscriptions, to responsibly managing the creator ecosystem, and more.
As a Strategy Associate for YouTube, you will drive our team’s initiatives forward with the coaching and mentorship of principals and directors: structuring ambiguous problems, deeply researching the engaged landscape, building models, and analyzing complex data to synthesize executive-ready recommendations. You will operate as a generalist, applying your strategy toolkit to a varied range of projects across YouTube’s product and business areas. Your work will directly shape company strategy and catalyze successful launches with cross-functional teams. You'll work side-by-side with executive stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Business, Partnerships, Marketing, Sales, and more. In addition, you will be an integral part of the Strategy team’s tight-knit community and culture.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $118000 - $169000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Break down problems with frameworks and detailed action plans.
- Perform quantitative analysis (e.g., sophisticated financial modeling, SQL queries) and qualitative analysis (e.g., analyzing key trends).
- Articulate information through compelling verbal and written reports, and presentations tailored to a variety of audiences across levels of management and functions.
- Cultivate relationships with teams, and influence cross-functionally to achieve shared objectives.
- Advocate the culture through embodying a learning mentality, an ownership mindset, and strong teamwork orientation.
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