Minimum qualifications:

• Experience managing people and teams in technical operations.
• Experience in implementing TV or digital streaming video technologies and industry standards.
• Experience managing multiple timelines, partners, and priorities to drive project execution.
• Ability to speak and write in English and one other European language (i.e. French, German, or Spanish) fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience successfully discussing and evaluating technical terms in partner agreements.
• Experience managing partner-facing teams and delivering high-profile projects.
• Experience successfully aligning cross-functional, internal and external teams across locations on differing priorities in ambiguous environments.
• Experience identifying and implementing successful operational processes that reduce operator time and increase efficiency.
• Experience using partner-facing publishing tools, CRMs, or other partner management systems.

About the job

Our operations team works cross-functionally across engineering, product, business development and finance on a variety of initiatives spanning across YouTube TV, emerging content subscriptions, and more. You will be a proactive and passionate leader who can help us scale operationally and support product and partner launches.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that is on the forefront of the onboarding and ongoing operations relationships with YouTube’s TV and media partners.
• Identify and cultivate content and technology opportunities and provide regular partner intelligence updates to cross-functional teams.
• Ensure the team understands and represents YouTube’s technical interests during partner legal agreements, identify potential operational risks, and mitigate those risks via cross-functional collaboration and creative problem solving with our partners.
• Drive collaboration with internal teams to refine existing processes and tools used by partners and operators.
• Partner with our Product, Business, and Strategy teams to identify partnership opportunities and support the operational needs for the region and product. Create and manage partner onboarding timelines for EMEA.