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Global Strategy and Operations Associate, YouTube Marketing

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Los Angeles, CAJob$95–135K/yrPosted 2mo agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$95–135K/yr
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Strategy and Operations Associate will support YouTube Marketing’s strategic and annual planning, analyze metrics to drive business performance, and deliver strategic projects. The role collaborates with teams across YouTube geographies and leaders in Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve business challenges, align goals and execution, and advance strategic partnerships and initiatives.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Business Strategies, nice to haveManagement Consulting, nice to haveInvestment Banking, nice to haveVenture Capital, nice to havePrivate Equity, nice to haveProblem Solving, nice to haveQuantitative Analysis, nice to haveData Analysis, nice to havePredictive Modeling, nice to haveMarketing Strategies, nice to haveRelationship Building, nice to haveCommunication Skills, nice to haveOperational Excellence, nice to haveMarket Research, nice to haveClient Collaboration, requiredBusiness Strategy Development, requiredCross-Functional Initiative Execution, requiredBusiness Judgment, nice to haveCommunication, nice to haveSQL, nice to haveStatistical Analysis, nice to haveSpreadsheet Software, nice to haveMarketing Capabilities, nice to haveInfluencing Senior Managers, nice to haveAmbiguity Tolerance, nice to haveAdaptability, nice to haveBusiness Acumen, nice to haveOperational Aptitude, nice to haveCollaboration, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent, required2 Years Relevant Experience, required

Full job description

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info_outline XThis role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus. Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Los Angeles, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in a management consulting, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity role.
  • Experience working with clients, executives, or other partners.
  • Experience developing business strategies or executing cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in a role requiring distinctive business judgment, rigorous problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to senior management.
  • Experience with analytical tools/techniques (SQL, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, spreadsheet software).
  • Familiarity with how marketing capabilities come together to drive impact.
  • Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence senior managers.
  • Tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work in a fast-changing environment.
  • Possess foundational understanding of market, product, organizational and cross-functional nuances with an awareness of when to seek additional support and guidance.

About the job YouTube Marketing’s mission is to know our users, and to connect them to the magic of our products and creators. We make YouTube successful by shaping people’s perceptions of YouTube and inspiring them to engage with us. We’re also responsible for all of YouTube’s marketing activities to consumers, creators, and key opinion influencers. As a part of YouTube’s Marketing (YTM) organization, Strategy and Operations (S&O) professionals in provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward.

As the Strategy and Operations Associate, you will work with teams in all YouTube geographies and collaborate cross-functionally with key leaders across Marketing, Product, Finance, and People Operations to solve our toughest challenges, execute workstreams on high priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within Marketing. In this role, you will devise and enable YouTube Marketing’s overall strategic and annual plans, analyzing metrics to drive business performance, and delivering high visibility strategic projects across YTM.

As a part of this role, you will need strong business acumen and operational aptitude as well as exceptional people/communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across all levels. In this role, the ideal candidates should have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem-solving, strong quantitative skills, and comfort with broad-reaching and ambiguous questions. Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $95000 - $135000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Define problem statement and project scope to deliver against key business objectives with guidance, execute components of a project plan and help deliver aspects of projects in a high-quality and timely manner.
  • Support a data-driven annual business planning process and annual goals, and land the business plan in partnership with all the stakeholders.
  • Conduct market research to facilitate business judgement, market understanding, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, and solve complex business problems.
  • Identify and recommend strategic opportunities to support YouTube Marketing’s long-term goals.
  • Monitor, track and analyze metrics and complex data to ensure progress against business objectives surface actionable insights to help drive the business.

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How this job compares

Set against the 724 open Marketing Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 15, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$95–135K/yr
  • California median$124–229K/yr83 salary ranges
  • US median$123–218K/yr672 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $115K, is 38% below the California median midpoint ($187K) — in the lowest quarter of Marketing Strategy salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 92 open Marketing Strategy jobs in California and 724 across the US. 2% 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 Marketing Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 682 postings).
Education
143 of the 724 open Marketing Strategy jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 15, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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