Lead, Music and Podcasts Content Strategy

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of experience in a similar role within the mobile or online digital music content industry.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams at an app, website, or record label.
• Experience in a programming role for a mobile or online digital music business.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience identifying emerging musical talent/trends, exploring emerging trends, working with record labels, publishers, artists, and content owners.
• Experience working with external and internal partners on co-promotion or cross-promotion strategies and campaigns.
• Experience developing talent and people management.
• Familiarity with a variety of digital music formats including Short Form Video.
• Ability to craft messaging and work with design and production resources to drive creative execution.
• Ability to analyze research or performance data and apply that analysis to optimize programming strategy. Excellent problem solving skills.

About the job

Music and Podcasts Content Strategy (MPCS), sits in YouTube's Music Knowledge organization, focuses on developing a deep understanding of latest content and consumption trends in music across the YouTube ecosystem. Using these insights and music culture expertise, MPCS powers intelligent music experiences to grow discovery, consumption, creation, and participation by fans and creators using music and to help artists build successful careers on YouTube.

As a Lead for Music and Podcasts Content Strategy, you will lead this North America's music content strategy for YouTube. In this role, you will lead YouTube's Music programs across a variety of surfaces and formats. Leveraging your culture and content expertise, coupled with problem solving skills, you will help shape and land YouTube's products, and continue to grow YouTube's relevance and reach with music fans. You will partner closely with the global MPCS leadership team, and cross-functional stakeholders to develop and grow impactful content features, and scalable programming.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $154,000-$236,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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Responsibilities

• Define and execute YouTube's music content strategy for North America.
• Bring cultural, music, and market expertise to enable product and feature development and launches in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Work with product, music, and marketing teams to provide content intelligence that can inform their strategies and collaborations.
• Drive metric-based analyses of overall music content strategy and campaigns in the US and provide recommendations for enhancing their effectiveness.
• Manage staff and budget and participate in planning and defining OKRs.