Job Vacancies at Google Nigeria – 3 Positions

Location: Lagos Nigeria

About the Job

• YouTube’s Product Partnerships team accelerates the global growth and innovation of YouTube products by driving new business opportunities through partnerships.
• We own the business side of new features, products and initiatives that are vital to the success of YouTube. As a team member, you understand the landscape of partnerships opportunities across technology licensing/integrations, marketing, and distribution.
• You will also craft strategies, define and structure critical partnerships, negotiate agreements, and cultivate our relationships.
• As the Product Partnership Manager at YouTube, you will drive YouTube’s growth, through driving successful partner implementations and increasing user adoption and awareness of YouTube products, across the the largest markets in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
• You’ll work with our partners on new product launches, product integration, marketing campaigns, feature requests, and strategic planning, as well as managing business creation and growth. In addition, you will support global initiatives using your insights and perspectives from local markets.
• To be a successful candidate, you will present yourself as a thought leader with an analytical mindset and exceptional communication and relationship management skills, who has a a deep understanding of emerging market challenges and the ability to see multiple steps ahead and to identify industry trends and key influencers.
• You also have strong negotiation and partnering skills and specific experience in dealing at the executive levels of top companies.
• You should be able to work autonomously to close business opportunities but also collaboratively with product, engineering, legal, and other partner-facing teams to initiate, support, and grow partners and YouTube’s business.

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Responsibilities

• Manage partnerships that drive distribution of and access to YouTube’s applications and services, and drive significant awareness and user growth with mobile operator and broadband partners in SSA.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners including management and optimization of existing partners, support and track new partners through the launch process, agreement negotiations, and liaise with YouTube product and technical support teams in other regions.
• Work with YouTube Product & Content Partnership and other internal teams to define and execute country strategy to accelerate growth as new initiatives arise.
• Execute scalable user acquisition through partnerships and marketing programs.
• Define and analyze partner metrics and account plans and present them to YouTube management teams and partners.

Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in the telecom, media, and technology sector in emerging markets.
• Experience in client-facing business development roles.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in management consulting or corporate strategy.
• Experience closing deals and managing relationships with the major telecom operators of Africa and OEMs, developing detailed account plans.
• Demonstrated success at working with cross-functional teams and building strong relationships across departments, including sales, marketing, business development, engineering, and product management.
• Strong understanding of mobile and broadband business models and priorities for partners.
• Ability to articulate new concepts and business models that are unique to Africa’s emerging markets to a global cross-functional team.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos Nigeria

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 the Sales Strategy Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Sales, you will partner closely with the SSA Regional Director and the Country Directors for South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya (SSA3) to set direction for the business activities in the region, with a focus on business and product strategy, business execution, and business generation. As a member of the Management Group, you will work closely with the full African cross-functional leadership team. In this role, you will support all business channels and enable successful delivery of the business plan by creating a business rhythm that allows the management team to set the right aspiration and direction, track performance (including business reviews), identify shortfalls and opportunities, and execute main initiatives in the region. You will also be responsible to cascade global and regional strategy and programs into SSA3 and to share best practices from SSA3 across other EMEA emerging markets and globally.
• 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

• Develop and deploy SSA3 strategy collaboratively with relevant Sales and cross-functional leads. Provide consistent metrics to understand and improve business performance, both business and productivity (business efficiency and effectiveness).
• Support ads product localization efforts.
• Enable effective business reviews. Identify/prioritize business opportunities (e.g. country, business channel, vertical, product) and develop programs to capture (test, implement).
• Ensure appropriate resource allocation (e.g. sales teams, sales tech support) to achieve business and productivity goals. Leverage best-practices and global programs into prioritized business plans and scalable business practices.
• Participate and contribute in strategic efforts in close collaboration with regional and global teams.

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Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and MBA, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in strategy consulting or similar work requiring project management and executive communication
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently

Preferred qualifications:

• Sales and/or marketing experience; experience in structuring and implementing initiatives with sales teams
• Demonstrated strong performance in roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence including the ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good networker and influencer, with strong interpersonal skills, ability to work across various Google functions

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos

About the Job

• The Office of the CTO (OCTO) is a diverse team of highly experienced engineers and technologists, working on behalf of the Cloud CEO, whose mission is to foster market-disrupting collaborative innovation between Google and the world's most ambitious organizations.
• As Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud, you will create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our most strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert them into new, technology-enabled businesses. Your experience spans people, process and technology, with a heavy emphasis on engineering savvy that enables expert judgment in high stakes situations where complex decisions are made in an environment of significant uncertainty.
• You will help our customers create their future and help us create the future of Google by continuously tuning our innovation system to the needs of the world’s most complex enterprises.
• Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

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• Cultivate collaborative innovation with enterprises and organizations in the Africa region.
• Synthesize information from previous experience and new learnings into suggestions for new Google products and platforms.
• Inspire others internally and externally to work through difficult and disruptive endeavors through sharing experiences/learnings while a member of OCTO.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of work experience in software, hardware, or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering leadership.
• Experience leading and influencing strategic initiatives without authority.
• Experience communicating with customers on the impact of technology.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience co-creating cloud roadmaps at a CIO, CTO, or SVP of Engineering level.
• Team oriented leader, with the ability to navigate across organizations and functions for the benefit of transformation projects with clients and/or a company.
• Highly technical, with experience applying technology to solve business problems.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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