Strategic Planning Senior Associate, YouTube

Strategic Planning Senior Associate, YouTube _corporate_fare_ YouTube _place_ New York, NY, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; +2 more; +1 more **Mid** Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area. _info_outline_ XApplicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: **New York, NY, USA; San Bruno, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA** . **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 4 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role. + 3 years of experience in a strategy and operations or consulting role. + 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders. **Preferred qualifications:** + MBA, graduate degree, or equivalent practical experience in a technical, quantitative, or business field. + Experience with strategic and operational projects, cross-functional stakeholder management, and project management, including the ability to work autonomously and keep multiple priorities moving at the same time. + Ability to formulate hypotheses, design tests, and use problem-solving techniques to drive to solutions for complex problems. + Ability to be highly collaborative, self-initiate and comfortable navigating ambiguity. + Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels, including cross-functional peers and executive leadership. **About the job** The YouTube Business Central Planning and Operations team is responsible for leading global, cross-functional, strategic initiatives to drive the unprecedented growth and health of the YouTube creator and partner ecosystem. The core capabilities of the team include strategic planning, business operations, incentives design and operations, product partnerships strategy, and go-to-market for the three regions: Americas, EMEA, and APAC. As a Senior Associate on the Strategic Planning team, you will partner closely with leaders across YouTube’s business organization to lead the organization-wide objectives and key results (OKR) process, and undertake special projects to improve how our teams operate and execute. You will develop the strategic executive review cadence and investigative capabilities to evaluate business performance across the YouTube portfolio, ensuring our day-to-day operations are directly driving our top-level strategy. Transforming and innovating on the OKR lifecycle, from planning and alignment to tracking and grading, will be a core responsibility, streamlining execution and reducing operational friction across the business. Your broad understanding of the team’s work, and your ability to quickly analyze a challenge with structured thinking and a sharp sense for process will help propel strategic priorities across the team. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and you effortlessly adapt your approach to reconcile with changing priorities, directions, and guidance. You will be working cross-functionally in a results-driven environment, having a proven track record of managing competing priorities, and want to be part of an innovative global team forging new ground in the world of technology and entertainment. 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $124000 - $178000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) . **Responsibilities** + Lead, launch, and land the global OKR lifecycle (annual and quarterly planning, cross-team alignment, tracking, and grading) to ensure the organization is unified and focused on its highest-impact priorities. + Act as the connective tissue across the business to harmonize disparate goals and workstreams. Influence without authority to identify dependencies and ensure cross-team efforts are aligned to YouTube's top priorities. + Orchestrate quarterly OKR reviews for the YouTube C-suite leadership, which includes curating the business narrative and preparing executives for these critical strategic discussions. + Identify tools, dashboards, and automated processes that will improve OKR tracking, visibility, and performance management. Develop and implement these solutions in partnership with product leads and operations teams to minimize manual reporting overhead while maintaining operational excellence. + Drive special projects critical for YouTube, flexing beyond core operational cadences to manage high-priority, ad-hoc opportunities. Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) . 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