
Communications Manager, YouTube Music and Premium
San Bruno, CAJob$141–205K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Communications Manager will shape the public narrative for YouTube Music and Premium, support feature launches, and manage executive press opportunities. The role works across technology, music, and entertainment, coordinating with Product, Marketing, and Communications teams and advising product leads on go-to-market strategies. The position calls for seven years of relevant communications experience; experience managing product, entertainment, or business communications is preferred.
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Communications Manager, YouTube Music and Premium
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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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7 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or internal and executive communications with technology products or services.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience managing product, entertainment or business communications.
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Familiarity with subscription products, online video, and the broader media and entertainment landscape.
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Demonstrated ability to work calmly and maintain good judgment in a changing, high-stress environments; ability to think, plan and execute on multiple projects simultaneously.
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Excellent communications skills, verbal and written.
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Strong track record of creative storytelling, proactive press outreach, and building relationships with journalists, influencers and stakeholders.
About the job
As an experienced Communications Manager, you will drive the public narrative, support feature launches, and manage executive press opportunities for YouTube Music and Premium. You will have a unique opportunity to shape the story of an industry-leading streaming platform while working at the forefront of technology, music, and entertainment.
We help inform and educate users, advertisers, partners, opinion leaders--and our own employees--about the benefits of Google's products, our distinctive company culture/values and our approach to the big public policy issues of the day. You are quick-witted, entrepreneurial and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines. Things happen quickly at Google, and to do great work, you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally with partners across PR, Communications, Marketing, Product, and beyond.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Shape YouTube Premium’s narrative as a leading streaming platform through proactive public relations campaigns that drive awareness and reinforce the value of the subscription.
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Support feature launches, new formats, and drive momentum across YouTube’s subscription offerings, the YouTube Music app, and podcasts. Drive alignment between Product, Marketing, and Communications teams to ensure consistent messaging and act as a strategic advisor to product leads on go-to-market strategies and feature announcements.
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Support executive platform for speaking events, Tier-1 media opps, bylines, podcasts, creator channels, and more.
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Manage and cultivate partnerships with a broad swath of media, including tech, entertainment, and business press, as well as new media, creators, and podcasters.
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Anticipate and mitigate risks and position YouTube Premium as an indispensable entertainment destination.
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How this job compares
Set against the 492 open Communications Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$141–205K/yr
- California median$136–195K/yr75 salary ranges
- US median$112–185K/yr344 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $173K, is close to the California median midpoint ($170K) — in the middle half of Communications Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 87 open Communications Manager jobs in California and 492 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Communications Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (444 postings).
- Education
- 193 of the 492 open Communications Manager jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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