Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking, in the consumer electronics, auto, OEMs, telecom, E-commerce/retail, apps, ads, gaming, or technology industries.
- 1 year of experience in the music, video, media, or entertainment industry.
- Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
- Experience managing agreements or partnerships.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with spreadsheet analysis, public presentations and data management.
- Experience in an external-facing customer interaction role with customer support, sales, or relationship development.
- Ability to interact at all levels of an organization, as well as cross-functionally.
- Ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally and externally, thinking strategically about issues to convert insights into straightforward, timely actions.
- Excellent communication, presentation planning, and time management skills.
About The Job
Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.
As a Strategic Partner Manager of Scaled Content Partnerships for the YouTube Music vertical, you will be as comfortable partnering content-licensing agreements with partners as you are working cross-functionally with colleagues in Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure our partners are positioned for success and our users enjoy the best experience possible. You will initiate and manage day-to-day operations and partner relationships, fielding and prioritizing incoming requests, troubleshooting partner systems around reporting, content management, and Content Identification (Content ID), and creating periodic reportsboth external and internalon partner performance.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun and we do it all together.
Responsibilities
- Manage project initiatives to grow emerging artists including workshops, events, and other scaled initiatives.
- Manage and help grow a scaled portfolio of high-potential YouTube artists and Music media companies. Work collaboratively with the team and cross-functional partners to develop and implement creative ways to improve client relationships, grow distribution, and drive growth.
- Measure and analyze overall artist and label performance. Streamline operational workflows and process improvements.
- Identify areas of demand for regional content and prioritize the acquisition and on-boarding of new music content partners from the regions.
- Develop relationships with key partners. Manage day-to-day partnership activities with a focus on existing performance growth, and advocate internally on behalf of partners.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
