Head Of Creator Partnerships

Job Description

As the Head of Creator Partnerships, you will lead strategic partnerships with creators across all verticals, talent agencies and industry bodies. You will inspire and educate creators and content partners, to ensure YouTube's product features and tools help to meet their business objectives. You will provide market insight to regional and global strategy teams to advocate and prioritize for the needs of our partners.

In this role, you will lead YouTube's partnerships with the creator ecosystem, managing a team responsible for partnerships with content creators. You will work cross-functionally with Marketing, Policy and Sales to enable initiatives that foster the creator community at scale, bring the corporate narrative to life via creator stories, improve the business climate for creators and the creator economy, and protect the platform's brand reputation.

Resonsibilities:
• Lead relationships across the creator ecosystem, define strategies and priorities, and collaborate globally. Advocate for creators, identify and manage local issues, opportunities and risks and partner with global and cross-functional teams to influence business and product strategy.
• Navigate complexity and ambiguity, partner with key stakeholders and cross-functional partners to drive alignment, clarity and execution. Support incentive and acquisition programs, review legal agreements and support the team through execution.
• Drive activation of new product features, track business metrics and insights and promote a culture of constructive feedback for team success.
• Participate in external conferences, panels and press engagements.
• Lead Business Development and Partner Managers responsible for managing business relationships with YouTube creators and content partners. Attract and retain excellent, diverse talent to cultivate a high-performing team.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Experience in creative industries, content production or digital marketplace, and with the creator ecosystem and industry landscape.
• Experience in business leadership, partnerships and driving operations across cross-functional teams.
• Experience as a people manager.

Preferred qualifications:
• Experience building rights agreements, working with legal and strategy teams.
• Experience in launching new products, tracking business metrics and providing insights and feedback to product teams.
• Experience working within a global, matrixed business, influencing multiple internal stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in managing high-performing teams, with the ability to attract and retain talent as well as cultivate a diverse pool of talent.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex, ambiguous topics.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp395o-52-15-57-52-42 in your application.