
Viewer Growth Team Lead, Product Strategy and Operations
San Bruno, CAJob$176–256K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Viewer Growth Team Lead will help drive YouTube’s growth strategy through investigative insights and operational excellence. The role partners with YouTube Product and Engineering leaders to improve decision-making and execution, and works with the Viewer leadership team to identify opportunities, set goals, and measure success. It also leads the viewer growth product strategy and operations team, providing day-to-day direction and prioritization.
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Viewer Growth Team Lead, Product Strategy and Operations
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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
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Experience providing data-driven decision support and advice to executive stakeholders.
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Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple projects.
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Experience with SQL and spreadsheet based analysis.
Preferred qualifications:
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MBA degree.
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Experience in an analytically-intensive role, such as management consulting, investment banking, business intelligence, data science, or corporate strategy and operations.
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Experience working with consumer-facing software products, product teams, and engineering teams.
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Experience in leveraging AI solutions for data analysis.
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Experience with people management.
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Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to create compelling narratives.
About the job
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
YouTube’s ecosystem is constantly growing and evolving. We believe it's critical to use data to run our business and drive the decisions we make. Our Product Strategy and Operations team partners with Product and Engineering leaders to enable better decisions and faster execution. In this role, you’re expected to help drive YouTube growth strategy through investigative insights, and operational excellence.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Work with the YouTube Viewer leadership team to identify and prioritize medium and longer term opportunities, Set Annual and Quarterly Goals (OKRs) and determine how we measure success.
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Analyze, understand and communicate how YouTube is performing against our goals and identify emerging insights and trends with our leadership team.
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Run our weekly “health of the business” forum with our Product, Engineering, and Business leadership teams.
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Partner with our Data Science team to prioritize and execute quantitative analyses and advanced modeling that deliver actionable insights.
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Manage the viewer growth product strategy and operations team and help with day-to-day direction, guidance and prioritization.
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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,065 open Product Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$176–256K/yr
- California median$178–274K/yr375 salary ranges
- US median$146–247K/yr1,775 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $216K, is 5% below the California median midpoint ($228K) — in the middle half of Product Strategy salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 411 open Product Strategy jobs in California and 2,065 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 11 years of experience — more than three in four Product Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 1,781 postings).
- Education
- 431 of the 2,065 open Product Strategy jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 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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