Global Strategy and Operations Associate, YouTube Marketing

Responsibilities

• Define problem statement and project scope to deliver against key business objectives with guidance, execute components of a project plan and help deliver aspects of projects in a high-quality and timely manner.
• Support a data-driven annual business planning process and annual goals, and land the business plan in partnership with all the stakeholders.
• Conduct market research to facilitate business judgement, market understanding, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, and solve complex business problems.
• Identify and recommend strategic opportunities to support YouTube Marketing’s long-term goals.
• Monitor, track and analyze metrics and complex data to ensure progress against business objectives surface actionable insights to help drive the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in a management consulting, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity role.
• Experience working with clients, executives, or other partners.
• Experience developing business strategies or executing cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred

• Experience in a role requiring distinctive business judgment, rigorous problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to senior management.
• Experience with analytical tools/techniques (SQL, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, spreadsheet software).
• Familiarity with how marketing capabilities come together to drive impact.
• Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence senior managers.
• Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment.
• Possess foundational understanding of market, product, organizational and cross-functional nuances with an awareness of when to seek additional support and guidance.