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Strategy and Operations Manager, YouTube Trust and Safety Operations

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Compensation
$116–166K/yr
Location
San Bruno, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Strategy and Operations Manager partners with YouTube Trust and Safety Operations’ Scaled Abuse and Business Analytics teams and their leaders. The role drives high-priority projects, develops plans and frameworks to improve operations, and supports organizational goals. It also partners with cross-functional stakeholders to turn insights into operational actions and supports team planning and business cadence.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Problem SolvingQuantitative AnalysisExecutive CommunicationWorking in Ambiguous EnvironmentsCross-Functional CollaborationRelationship BuildingInfluencing ExecutivesStrategy DevelopmentBusiness StrategyManaging Cross-Functional InitiativesExecutive Stakeholder Management

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience4+ Years in Listed Business Roles or 2+ Years With Advanced Degree2+ Years Developing Business Strategies or Managing Cross-Functional Initiatives2+ Years Working With Executive Stakeholders4+ Years Problem-Solving, Quantitative Analysis, and Executive Communication

Full job description

Strategy and Operations Manager, YouTube Trust and Safety Operations

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 4 years of experience in a management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.

  • 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

  • 2 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 4 years of experience with problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executives.

  • Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.

  • Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executives.

  • Ability to develop and understand strategy.

About the job

As a Strategy and Operations Manager on YouTube's Trust and Safety Operations team, you will be the Strategy Operations partner to the Scaled Abuse and Business Analytics teams. You will play a key leadership role in helping our organization to achieve its goals and directly contribute to YouTube’s responsibility mission.

In this role, you’ll be a thought partner to Directors in Trust and Safety Operations and cross-functional partners. You will drive high priority projects for the Scaled Abuse and Business Analytics teams including developing plans, processes, and frameworks to improve our operations short- and long-term. You will work in a fast-paced team; you grow in ambiguity and demonstrate problem solving leadership and judgment.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $116000 - $166000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive critical initiatives to accelerate Trust and Safety operations, working closely with cross-functional teams and executives.

  • Leverage quantitative and qualitative approaches to generate insights and translate concepts into operational actions that yield positive impact.

  • Partner with leadership to understand and improve organizational productivity through the full stack of Trust and Safety operations.

  • Establish thought-partnership relationships with key stakeholders across the operations, product, engineering, and business organizations at YouTube.

  • Support the leadership of the Scaled Abuse and Business Analytics team in running of the business cadence (e.g. Objectives and Key Results (OKR) planning and business planning) and the team (e.g., organizing leadership meeting agendas, coordinating internal communications).

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How this job compares

Set against the 880 open Business Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$116–166K/yr
  • California median$152–221K/yr138 salary ranges
  • US median$131–221K/yr601 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $141K, is 24% below the California median midpoint ($187K) — in the lowest quarter of Business Strategy salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 150 open Business Strategy jobs in California and 880 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Business Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 639 postings).
Education
326 of the 880 open Business Strategy jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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