Senior Program Manager, Ads Planning

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience defining and driving operations for large work groups, including establishing processes, leading larger group summits/discussions, and decision-making frameworks.
• Experience in orchestrating complex program portfolios.
• Ability to lead organizations changes smoothly, including building effective program teams and managing the impact of change across multiple groups.
• Ability to navigate high levels of ambiguity to define long-term objectives, decompose them into executable work-streams, and ensure delivery OKRs.

About the job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

As a Senior Program Manager, you will guide and continually optimize strategic and complex programs that reach across the Ads Planning ecosystem to guide consistency, efficiency, and economies of scale. You will orchestrate program strategy and lead program teams to deliver business, operational, and technical improvements that address significant challenges and directly impact level Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

In this role, you will navigate through high levels of ambiguity to define and drive cross-functional programs such as outcome-based planning, creator-centric strategy, and AI-based tool portfolio simplification balancing long-term objectives with near-term deliverables. Success requires building deep alignment with other YouTube Ads teams and across broader Ads organizations including Customer Engagement (CE) and Advertiser Platform (AP). You will act as a primary bridge between technical and business domains, working cross-functionally across engineering, product, UX, and sales to ensure executive stakeholder alignment and drive a unified strategy that maximizes returns for Google

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$258,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Guide progress, alignment, and support for Ads Planning initiatives, including execution coordination all the way to larger roadmap development and alignment with executive leadership.
• Navigate complex organizational structures to build consensus and drive consistency across Ads Planning, YouTube Ads and other Ads organization, be a partner in the development and delivery of executive-level communications.
• Lead the operations and strategy for the organization, including the design and execution of OKR processes, leadership and launch reviews, and strategy alignment and communication to ensure organizational effectiveness.
  
• Manage the planning and tracking of key resources such as Operational Expenditure (OpEx), landing strategies that optimize budget and resource allocation for high-priority business outcomes.