Global Product Solutions Lead, Creator Ad Solutions
- linkCopy link
- emailEmail a friend
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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in product solutions, product management, or GTM strategy within the digital advertising or ad tech industry.
- 2 years of experience working with Product Management or Engineering teams, executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred qualifications:
- Understanding of the mechanics of the affiliate marketing, influencer marketing, and the economics of paid media amplification (e.g., flat fees, commissions, GMV).
- Proven ability to translate complex products into digestible and compelling narratives for sellers and advertisers with wide-ranging needs.
- Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and influence executive leadership.
- Proven ability to scale products from 0 to 1 through fast experimentation, strict prioritization and and a thorough understanding of customer needs.
About the job
Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes and sizes, and no single advertising solution works for all. In this role, you will be the link between Google products and businesses. You will turn innovation into packaged tools that maximize customer value, ensuring Google adopts the right go-to-market strategies for our products.
This role sits in the YouTube Ads go-to-market (GTM) team, whose mission is to keep YouTube free and accessible by effectively monetizing it with advertisers. The Creator team capitalizes on the influence of creators and their communities to curate premium experiences that cement YouTube’s cultural position and create excellent outcomes for brands.
Being at the intersection of product innovation and market execution, you will inform strategy, identify product-to-market fit, and design GTM activations for YouTube’s emerging creator-centric ad solutions, including affiliate. You will partner with Product to ensure our roadmap reflects market realities and drives ecosystem health, and with Sales to empower global teams with a clear goals.
Within Creator Ad Solutions, you will lead GTM strategy for creator and affiliate partnerships, streamlining high-priority initiatives. You will shape emerging capabilities into scalable solutions that redefine how brands and creators amplify their impact. Working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, gTech, and Marketing, you will ensure these frontier products succeed with top advertisers globally.
The Go-to-Market Strategy and Operations organization partners with our Google Cloud Sales organization to develop Go-to-Market strategies, providing business critical insights using analytics, ensuring cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helping teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives. Our team of creative visionaries thrives in deconstructing and re-creating businesses to meet changing strategic and operational needs, enable, incubate and scale innovation, establish more efficient practices, align functions and stakeholders to help the company continue to achieve its vast potential.
US: $152000 - $221000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap for emerging creator and affiliate ad solutions, align business requirements, and vet product-to-market fit.
- Build business cases for innovations by leveraging customer needs, market trends, and engaged landscapes to prioritize features that solve advertiser and merchant pain points.
- Design global activation plans and manage early-stage pilots, translating complex creator and affiliate products into a unified sales motion to empower global teams.
- Serve as the primary market feedback channel. Lead product incubation and synthesize pilot data to iterate on products before global scaling.
- Orchestrate alignment across sales and product teams spanning Ads, YouTube, and Shopping to unify creator solution launches and manage stakeholder expectations.
Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.