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Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube Music and Premium

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United StatesJob$140–203K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$140–203K/yr
Location
United States
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Strategic Partner Manager will lead YouTube Music and Premium distribution, growth, strategic marketing, and product integration partnerships. The role involves negotiating and managing partnerships with major partners across entertainment, gaming, retail, aviation, living room devices, and banking, while coordinating launches and resolving issues across internal teams. The manager will analyze partnership effectiveness and support departmental strategy, planning, and executive recommendations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

New Business DevelopmentPartner Relationship ManagementManagement ConsultingInvestment BankingNegotiationData AnalysisStrategic MarketingProject IntegrationBusiness DevelopmentPartnershipsExecutive EngagementSubscription ProductsSVOD PartnershipsBusiness Agreement ReviewLegal NegotiationProduct CollaborationEngineering CollaborationExecutive PresencePresentationsYouTube and Google ProductsIndustry KnowledgeOpportunity IdentificationBusiness Problem SolvingInvestigative Skills

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent7 Years Business Experience30% Travel

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.

  • Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.

  • Experience working with subscription-based products and managing partnerships for Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD).

  • Ability to travel 30% of the time domestically and internationally.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience reviewing business agreements and working with legal teams to redline and negotiate legal documents.

  • Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams.

  • Experience in maintaining an executive presence and delivering presentations to leadership both internally and externally.

  • Knowledge of YouTube’s and Google’s products and the industries they operate within.

  • Ability to look beyond the present and proactively identify future challenges and opportunities.

  • Ability to structure, analyze, and solve business problems while delivering impact against business goals with excellent investigative skills.

About the job

In this role, you will lead the development of YouTube's distribution, growth, strategic marketing and product integration partnerships. You will work within the YouTube Music and Premium product partnerships team to help negotiate and manage strategic partnerships that grow the YouTube Music and Premium through partnerships with top partners in entertainment, gaming, retail, aviation, living room devices, and banking.

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: $140000 - $203000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Negotiate agreements with internal and external partners that support the growth of YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, including subscription distribution partnerships (e.g., integrated billing bundling agreements, etc.).

  • Serve as the main day-to-day point of contact for a variety of top partners, troubleshooting issues and responding to time-sensitive inquiries.

  • Oversee all aspects of partnership launches and navigate cross-functional complexity, work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, and Finance teams to quickly and effectively bring open issues to resolution and drive incremental growth for YouTube Music and Premium.

  • Analyze data, understand partnership effectiveness, and seek ways to optimize growth. Influence the broader partnerships team with key learnings and strategies for future programs.

  • Support departmental strategy and operations, including goal-setting, financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, strategy playbooks, account planning, and presenting recommendations to executive leadership teams and various stakeholders.

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How this job compares

Set against the 507 open Strategic Partnerships jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–203K/yr
  • US median$163–202K/yr433 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $172K, is 4% below the US median midpoint ($179K) — in the middle half of Strategic Partnerships salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 507 open Strategic Partnerships jobs across the US. 25% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Strategic Partnerships postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (412 postings).
Education
102 of the 507 open Strategic Partnerships jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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