Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in product management including providing outlook, strategy development, data-influenced planning, prioritization, and directing launches.
• Experience building and leading a team of product managers and working with cross-functional and cross-product area partners.
• Experience creating, executing, and delivering against a product roadmap to drive business impact.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with finance, business model design, and business mechanics.
• User-centric focus and experience building delightful products.
• Understanding of and experience in the creator economy ecosystem landscape and opportunities.
• Ability to build cross-functional relationships across Google, lead through influence, and work effectively with technical and geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to have an entrepreneurial drive and be an innovative problem solver that can turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear solutions while maintaining focus on the user.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.

About the job

Beyond YouTube’s ad products, YouTube offers diverse products to enable fans to “fund” their favorite creators, giving them more ways than ever to earn on YouTube and do what they love. Our Fan Funding products include Paid Digital Goods, like virtual Gifts, and Channel Memberships, which enable channels to provide exclusive content and other perks to their monthly-paying members.

As the Senior Director of Product Management for Fan Funding, your job will be to set and execute the strategy for growth/expansion, product improvement, and innovation for the Paid Digital Goods and Channel Memberships products on YouTube. You will independently drive and manage these businesses.

In this role, you’ll work closely with peers in Engineering and UX, as well as Product Activation, Marketing, Finance, and Partnerships to build amazing products and grow their global adoption and business generation. This role involves driving change to both our viewer and creator facing systems as well as much cross-team coordination with other tech teams, like YouTube Commerce and YouTube Live.

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 $336,000-$467,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google

Responsibilities

• Define the product outlook, roadmap, and business plan for YouTube Fan Funding. Develop and execute responsible global growth strategies for Fan Funding products. Design and lead a multi-year roadmap, balancing short and long-term goals and investments to scale globally and grow these businesses.
• Define the product outlook, strategy, and roadmap for Fan Funding for YouTube Shorts, where creator incentives are critical to driving growth of this ecosystem.
• Understand the global creator economy landscape, emerging trends, and be thoughtful about YouTube’s place in it. Analyze industry trends to drive innovation.
• Lead and grow a highly capable team of product managers to achieve the annual goals (both business and organization) including driving sustainable longer-term impact.
• Engage key stakeholders to influence and coordinate across product area boundaries to ensure effective solutions delivery and measurable business impact.