Video Strategy and Activation Lead, Go-To-Market

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in positioning, implementation and management of Google’s Video solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Account management, product deployment/management, consulting or program management experience.
• Demonstrated performance with increasing levels of responsibility and independence, and demonstrated ability to lead complex strategic initiatives.
• Ability to think strategically in analyzing client and team needs, with a proven track record in managing ambiguity that comes with projects.
• Thought leader with the ability to build trusted relationships, influence key decisions and/or drive urgency on key priorities. Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, as well as the ability to communicate with technical teams.

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

As a Video Strategy and Activation Lead, you will play a key role in defining and delivering EMEA’s post-sales strategy for Video Products. You will work with sales leaders to drive successful product activation. You will identify and analyze post-sales opportunities, align plans across stakeholders and focus sales teams on addressing them. You will drive innovation by managing the deployment of new products and features in Dublin, including collecting and prioritizing product feedback together with the relevant Product Expert. You will enable best practice sharing by managing programs for the relevant specialist communities. You will work on, and often lead, projects defined by the Global, EMEA and Dublin management teams.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Formulate, structure and lead the execution of key strategic Video initiatives. Develop work plans, gather and synthesize relevant data, lead analyses, and develop final recommendations.
• Be a thought partner for LCS Video. Be equally comfortable co-writing an executive POV/white paper on strategic initiatives, facilitating and/or participating in formal or/and ad hoc whiteboard problem-solving session, or speaking at an offsite.
• Lead presentations, clearly communicate findings and recommendations and facilitate decision making with Executive teams.