Strategic Partner Manager, Gaming Publishers, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
   
• 10 years of experience with partner/account management in the video, media, or entertainment industry focused on the gaming space.
• Experience managing agreements or partnerships.
   
• Experience in business development, partnerships, sales or management consulting.
• Experience working with executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with YouTube creation, strategy, and management.
• Experience managing partnerships.
• Experience working at a game publisher on content marketing initiatives, with creators/influencers, and maintaining business relationships.
• Understanding of user journeys between in-game experiences and video platforms.
• Ability to leverage data to drive decisions and measure partnership effectiveness.
• Passion to be involved in the gaming space.

About the job

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.

The Gaming Publisher Team's mission is to make YouTube the most valuable destination for Game Publishers to reach players and build communities around their games globally.

In concert with this mission, as partnership managers, we understand Games Publishers' business needs, goals and milestones. Our team is proactive with Game Publishers to identify opportunities for new products, content and programs that can drive impact across key business objectives. This team executes Product and Content partnerships with Game Publishers to launch products to drive scaled adoption and usage of new features and products like YouTube Playables and YouTube Shopping.

We ensure Publishers understand YouTube's vital role in their game ecosystem, how creators and viewers contribute to success of their games, and drive Publisher investment in the YouTube creator ecosystem. Our team ensures Game Publishers drive YouTube Product adoption and Content priorities through deep partnerships.

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 $177,000-$256,000 + 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

• Build, maintain, and evolve external relationships with partners and across the ecosystem, and manage partnerships with entities of all sizes.
   
• Negotiate and close content acquisition agreements and renewals to grow the catalog of games for YouTube Playables.
• Develop cross-product area partner initiatives and execute go-to-market strategies to meet broader Google goals across rapidly changing industries.
• Ideate and drive agreements with potential partners and renewals/expansions for existing partners and build consensus with internal and external executives.
• Serve as the relationship manager for our existing agreements. Help realize and optimize value from these partnerships while building effective long-term relationships.

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