Program Manager, YouTube Operations (Fixed-Term Contract)
Job Summary
Job Description
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years program/project management experience
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Data-driven decision making
- Cost-savings initiative implementation
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience with senior leadership & stakeholders
- Experience in technical program management
- Ability to navigate ambiguity
- Business acumen and attention to detail
3 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in program or project management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with driving program management and accountability with senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Experience driving cross-functional teams of technical backgrounds (e.g., engineering, product, marketing, sales, policy) towards bold, data-driven goals.
- Ability to identify opportunity areas then prioritize by leveraging input from cross-functional teams.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and build subject matter expertise within the vertical operation.
- Excellent problem solving skills, with effective business acumen and attention to detail.
About the job
The YouTube Operations Technical Program Management team provides centralized program management capabilities for the entire YouTube Operations portfolio of work in order to drive efficiencies and prioritization, mature and transform operational workflows, ensure operational readiness for product launches and growth, and measurably implement cost-savings initiatives. We do this using domain expertise of YouTube’s products, business and platform operations.
As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for setting up transformative processes to drive durable cost savings for the YouTube Operations team such as establishing budget management processes, measure and report out on the current status of our responsible optimization and investing outcomes across the full range of the YouTube Global Operations, Operational Expenditure portfolio spanning Tech, Support and Trust and Safety verticals. You will also program manage the key critical efficiency or value creation initiatives per quarter. You will discover potential areas of opportunity for value creation or durable savings for the YouTube Global Operations team.
In this role, you will collaborate with many cross-functional partners including other Operations teams, Business Development, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Go-To-Market, Support and Trust and Safety. You will be innovative, influential and ultimately set the direction of the program requiring effective communication of program statuses and narratives to executives to cross-functional teams.
In addition, you will be organized with meticulous attention to detail, diligently planning roadmaps and tracking progress of key milestones, and will drive launches of new features and initiatives requiring cross-functional resources.
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 $107,000-$153,000. 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 .
Responsibilities
- Set the strategy and execution plan for driving governance of cross-functional efficiency reviews, including trust and safety, partner engineering, tech, and support in a bi-weekly review with YouTube operations leadership and a quarterly review with YouTube executives.
- Conduct program management of business critical efficiency or value creation initiatives per quarter, driving them through launch stage gates to capture the aimed cost-savings.
- Ensure the tracking of readouts on the current status of YouTube's global operations and operational expenditure investments.
- Discover new opportunity areas for additional value creation or efficiency gaining for YouTube’s global operations team.
- Develop scalable frameworks and influence operations and cross-functional teams to action the recommended sized opportunities for either efficiencies or value creation.
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