Team Lead, YouTube Shopping Ads

About the role

The YouTube (YT) Shopping Ads team drives the mission to make YouTube the most influential commerce destination through advertising. YTShopAds is responsible for creating and growing a multi-billion dollar business line for YouTube Advertising. In this role, you will provide authentic content that inspires, educates, and enables end-to-end shopping behavior. Imagine visiting YouTube and being presented a variety of unique products that match your interests, learning everything you need to know about these products, and taking the decision to move forward with your purchase. Our team’s goal is to make this seamless for YouTube watchers and Google’s advertisers.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience programming in Java or C++.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with user understanding and analysis of user metrics and trends.
• Familiarity with PLX/SQL/database querying technologies.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the delivery of shopping ads to YouTube viewers by incorporating new product information, refining content and presentation, and driving impact for users and customers in a full-stack manner.
• Contribute to the overall strategy of YouTube Shopping Ads, helping to build one of YouTube Ads' growing businesses.
• Develop expertise on the technical stack to deliver projects successfully.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers (PMs), user experience (UX) teams, and other software engineers (SWEs) to deliver on projects pertaining to YouTube Shopping Ads.
• Produce high-quality output and grow the business in conjunction with tech leads (TLs) and tech lead managers (TLMs) using a data-driven approach.

Benefits

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Pay

US: $207000 - $301000 (USD)

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Company

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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