Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with Media and Entertainment partners/ TV platform developers related to premium video content distribution.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in managing global initiatives with cross-functional partners including Business Development, Product Managers, Engineers, Marketing, Finance, etc.
• Knowledge of the Media and Entertainment content industry, and a perspective on its future evolution.
• Excellent critical thinking skills.

About the job

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. The Global Media and Entertainment (M&E) team partners primarily with the Platforms and Ecosystems (P&E) product area. The Global Partnerships team within P&E is focused on enabling top global M&E partners to build innovative content experiences on Android, Google Chrome and Google Play, with a particular focus on Google TV/Living Room. Primary geographics for international M&E partnerships are EMEA and APAC. Our tema also works closely with teams within Google that engage on media such as YouTube, Devices and Services, Search/Assistant, and others.

As a Deal Program and Velocity Manager, you will work cross-functionally in a matrixed partnership organization. In this role, you will use regional Media and Entertainment (M&E) content domain, business acumen, and product/platform expertise to build healthy partnerships that secure content, grow engagement, business generation, and enable innovation via content. You will work collaboratively with Google colleagues across function, region, and product areas.

Responsibilities

• Partner with and support the strategic partnerships managers on agreement tracking, progress reporting to maintain oversight, and transparency in overall partnerships program progress.
• Develop a streamline internal agreement related process to increase deal execution efficiency, including the development of partner-wide term sheets, pitch materials, and genre-led term sheets (e.g. sports). 
• Work with the central Media and Entertainment agreement operations and Programs’ team, to adapt and build standardized resources to facilitate discussions (e.g., understand agreement components, standardize briefing materials, issues lists, fallback matrixes, financial structures, deal summaries, etc.).
• Develop and maintain a policy lens in areas such as data privacy, content regulation/prominence, commerce, and others to act as a resource and facilitator for Business Development Mangers.
• Create repository of agreement best practices to drive consistency and create self-service support materials for the strategic partnership managers.