Product Activation Manager, Partner Sales, YouTube Business in Tipton

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with data analysis, including agreement structures, scenario forecasting, program performance tracking, market sizing, SQL, or spreadsheet analysis.
• 2 years of experience in presentation (i.e., owning content outline, slide creation, and delivery to executive audiences).
• Experience managing projects across cross‑functional partners.

Preferred qualifications

• MBA degree.
• 4 years of experience in agencies, top publishers, or managing digital marketing relationships with customers or agencies.
• Experience in externally facing consulting, business strategy, sales roles, or directly supporting externally facing teams with sales ops or sales strategy.
• Experience with digital advertising platforms such as Google Ads, Display and Video 360, Search Ads 360.
• Understanding of the YouTube ecosystem and products of ad sales business models and creator/partner ecosystems.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration, communication, project management, and problem‑solving skills.

About the job

As a member of the YouTube Business Product Activation team, you will be responsible for bringing products to market and the market to product. You will work closely with both business and product leaders to scale adoption of YouTube products across the partner and creator ecosystem. Your core capabilities will include identifying and prioritizing product activation opportunities across the business, ensuring launch readiness, defining and driving execution on product activation across segments, understanding the needs of partners and creators to provide product teams with market feedback and prioritization to shape product roadmaps, developing content strategy, and tracking performance.

The YouTube Partner Sales Go‑To‑Market Strategy team is responsible for the performance of our YouTube Partner Sales program, which spans TV, Film, News, Music, Kids, and Creator ecosystem partners. Our Partner Sales team creates and maintains the program architecture, develops go‑to‑market strategies, and supports our Strategic Partner Managers and YouTube Partner Sellers to improve their business capabilities across the full suite of YouTube products.

US: $124,000 - $178,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Responsibilities

• Set the go-to-market strategy, including influencing cross‑functional executive stakeholders, and drive execution on product and business priorities.
• Work cross‑functionally with Content Partnerships, Product Managers, Finance, and more to shape Partner Sales product strategy, craft go‑to‑market strategies, develop communications for new products, and synthesize global market feedback.
• Develop insights reports that highlight the top user and partner issues and business opportunities that Product should prioritize.
• Deliver C‑level presentations for major program updates or decision points, supporting critical product launches, agreements evaluation, and internal approval processes.
• Program manage, including leading cross‑functional working groups and instituting processes to track and optimize key projects.

EEO Statement

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