Associate and Manager, Market and Competitive Intelligence, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in equity research, consulting, and/or corporate strategy role at a technology or media-related company.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in related field.
• Experience in consumer Internet and media industries, and familiarity with industry data sources.
• Experience communicating, presenting, and influencing a range of audiences, including executives.
• Understanding of finance functions (e.g., operations, accounting, processes, risks, and controls).
• Ability to build analyses from scratch, make well-reasoned assumptions, work with large volumes of data, and triangulate across numerous data sources.
• Exceptional business judgment, with financial modeling, spreadsheet software, databases, and presentation software skills.

About the job

The YouTube Strategy team focuses on our highest priorities, solving complex, ambiguous problems that span early stage growth initiatives, investing in our largest product or business areas, making major operational or organizational changes, and assessing strategic rationale for YouTube external investment opportunities. Throughout, we provide analytics-based insights, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, help YouTube teams drive our most important strategic initiatives, and advise our senior leadership on the best path forward.

The YouTube Strategy, BizOps, Analytics, and Finance (SBAF) team's mission is to make YouTube commercially sustainable and more valuable, by identifying and steering the business towards the biggest opportunities, guiding the organization to make the best possible decisions, and enabling effective implementation and operations.

With teams in San Bruno, LA, NYC, London and Singapore, the SBAF team works closely with YouTube leadership across the product, engineering and business organizations to address challenges and opportunities across the company, help chart the long-term direction for YouTube, and provide analytics and decision support for the planning and steering of the business.
SBAF is a multi-specialist team, with several specialist capabilities across all three pillars of the team: Strategy (e.g., Market and Competitive Intelligence, CEO Office and Corporate Strategy, Product and Business Strategy), Business Operations (e.g., Global, AMER, EMEA, APAC), and Analytics and Decision Support (Data Infrastructure, BI Products, Commercial Analytics). In this role, you will become the authoritative source of industry data and trends, run proactive and ongoing research.

You will apply critical thinking, analyze data, formulate and synthesize recommendations on major business decisions to executive leadership across various departments.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work on the strategic priorities of YouTube's executives and determine how best to take on solving opportunities and problems which include structuring, launching, and driving projects that focus on supporting decisions and are based on financial models, analyzing market/competitive trends, business drivers, and operational metrics.
• Support comprehensive three-statement, driver-based models, and forward-looking projections for key competitors in our coverage universe. Provide financial insights and regular updates to leadership.
• Prepare presentations for YouTube's executives and the broader organization.
• Help drive thought leadership, industry analysis, competitive tracking, and earnings coverage.
• Collect and consolidate data from primary sources (e.g., Census information, company filings, etc.) to inform the point of view on industries or markets.