MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in strategy and business development within consulting,
technology, digital media, advertising, or broadcast industry.
- Experience using data analytics to frame partnerships, including contractual
and financial models.
- Experience with the digital video and the broadcast industry (traditional
linear and digital), its business models (SVOD, AVOD, etc.) and technologies
(video ad serving, Dynamic Ad Insertion).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with sales with the ability to influence perspectives and teams
across large organizations with multiple level stakeholders, including
C-suite executives.
- Experience working cross-functionally to design and implement creative
technical solutions and processes to novel, complex challenges with the
ability to work with an entrepreneurial approach.
- Experience developing partnerships, leading strategic initiatives and
structuring and negotiating agreements.
- Understanding of Google's complex technical and product concepts.
- Excellent people management and communication skills to formulate and
articulate business, financial and other points of value to multiple
stakeholders including escalating and presenting issues to Google executive
leadership and public speaking engagements.
ABOUT THE JOB:
Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The
Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new
opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and
extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with
our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product
offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key
industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products
such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.
As a Strategic Partner Lead, you will be responsible for managing a book of
business within our Video vertical. You will lead the relationship with some of
Canada’s largest Broadcasters leveraging the best of Google’s products and
platforms to grow their digital media business. We are looking for curious and
investigative minds that can solve complex problems and develop close working
relationships with key partners. Our clients' business is constantly evolving,
so our products and approach need to change with them. You will be joining a
team that aims to challenge and push boundaries on behalf of our partners.
In this role, you will serve as expert consultants and trusted advisors to our
partners. You will have experience in media, digital publishing, video and
advertising technology as well as an understanding of Google’s product offering
will allow you to identify new opportunities to fuel digital growth for our
partners. You will work cross-functionally to drive a holistic 'One Google'
approach to your partners’ businesses and build strong relationships with
C-level representatives to empower partners to manage digital transformation.
The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new
opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works
with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their
business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with
essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search,
Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create
product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business
growth for a variety of products.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and manage Executive relationships (including C-level) with top
partners within the Video vertical and develop a strong industry presence by
representing Google in industry events.
- Create and structure new agreement proposals, agreement renewals and
amendments to business generation partnerships, covering commercial, pricing,
legal and operational aspects, acting as point of contact with corresponding
internal support functions (Legal, Finance, Compliance, etc.).
- Lead annual business plans for Video vertical partners, including development
of business goals, strategic initiatives and Objectives and Key Results
(OKRs).
- Be accountable partners' business performance by partnering with Business
Leads to assess the optimization pipeline they develop and execute on, and
share latest developments of partners’ business strategy and goals.
- Develop a view of how Google’s entire product and solutions suite can help
address your partners’ key needs.
