Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube Scaled Partnerships

Minimum qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in an external-facing customer interaction role within customer support, sales, or relationship development.
• Experience in the video, media, entertainment industry or experience as a YouTube creator or working with partners or creators.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with objection handling, managing sensitive communication, and basic agreement negotiation.
• Experience in project management using project execution frameworks.
• Ability to interact comfortably with stakeholders at all levels of an organization, as well as influencing cross-functionally.
• Ability to analyze data and insights and translate in an external-friendly, actionable way.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record of proactively improving processes.

About the job

As a Strategic Partner Manager (SPM) you will manage a portfolio of YouTube creators identified as strategic to our business objectives. You will drive product adoption and optimization across YouTube’s platform priorities while also assessing creators’ needs and goals, crafting a plan to grow their channel, and delivering insights and strategy to enable their success on YouTube. You will deliver against partner performance metrics and core program KPIs to drive maximum impact.

In this role, you will grow in a fast-paced environment, and you are building a working understanding of YouTube internal processes, products, and teams. You will support your team in deepening relationships with key partners and creators, helping them optimize and adopt features, enabling YouTube to be successful. You will be developing your skills in relationship-building, negotiation, project management, and collaboration, focusing on tasks that contribute to your team's and organization's goals.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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $70,500-$98,500 + 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. In this role, you will grow in a fast-paced environment, and you are building a working understanding of YouTube internal processes, products, and teams. You will support your team in deepening relationships with key partners and creators, helping them optimize and adopt features, enabling YouTube to be successful. You will be developing your skills in relationship-building, negotiation, project management, and collaboration, focusing on tasks that contribute to your team's and organization's goals.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $70,500-$98,500 + 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

• Establish scaled strategic relationships with partners through different engagement types.
• Drive product adoption, optimization across YouTube priorities and support creators in their content, business generation and viewership goals.
• Ensure your partner portfolio complies with YouTube’s Community Guidelines and M10N policies and support them in navigating YouTube’s support and operations teams.
• Engage with and understand the latest features, policies, and platform improvements to help partners succeed.
• Project manage initiatives to