Job description / Role
Responsibilities
- Define strategies and priorities while aligning with the global vertical strategies across creators, artists, gamers, music, and media partners. Work with cross-functional teams (e.g., sales, marketing, PR/Comms, and policy) to set resourcing and specific plans to deliver on country strategies and objectives.
- Partner with local teams to proactively manage challenges and represent YouTube MENA interests within the wider organization. Command and report achievements across all OKRs.
- Advocate for the MENA region, influence product strategy, and represent YouTube across content, policy, partnerships, and PR.
- Nurture a high-performing team, embodying exceptional leadership to cultivate the next generation of Google leaders.
- Exceed in complex environments, crafting forward-looking strategies and structures that enable teams to navigate uncertainty while fostering an inclusive culture which invites, integrates, and celebrates diverse perspectives.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Candidates will typically have 12 years of experience in business development or partnerships in technology or media industries.
- Typically 7 years of experience leading strategy and cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred qualifications:
- Typically 7 years of experience in people management.
- Experience with leadership, developing a strategic vision and successful execution, aligning regional and global perspectives, and growing and developing teams.
- Experience working with political, economic, and media influencers and creators across MENA.
- Experience working in the MENA market with an understanding of regional nuances.
- Ability to analyze, structure and execute complex agreements, and to understand the broader business environment for YouTube and provide insightful, data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate in Arabic fluently to support partner relationship management in this region.
About the job
YouTube's Product Partnerships team accelerates the global growth and innovation of YouTube products by driving new business opportunities through partnerships. We own the business side of new features, products and initiatives that are vital to the success of YouTube. As a team member, you understand the landscape of partnerships opportunities across technology licensing/integrations, marketing, and distribution. You will also craft strategies, define and structure critical partnerships, negotiate agreements, and cultivate our relationships.
Our mission is to be the most rewarding home for our partners and for the communities where we operate. 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.
As Head of Partnerships you will be the internal and external advocate of YouTube in MENA, driving YouTube's agenda within Google and externally with creators, partners, users and the political, economic and media influencers in the region. You will set the strategy for the region, work cross-functionally across Google and YouTube to deliver on that strategy, and directly manage teams of Strategic Partner Managers. You will ensure the profitable and responsible growth of this critical region is in line with YouTube's overall strategy and mission.
About the Company
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.