Manager, Field Partner Engineering, YouTube Music Publishing

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in technical consulting/development roles supporting teams, customers, or partners.
  
• 6 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
  
• 2 years of experience in people management or mentoring/leading people.
  
• Experience working with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and Big Data Infrastructure (MapReduce, Hadoop or Spark).
  
• Experience in technical leadership, including leading business transformation initiatives.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
  
• Experience in internet products and technologies in either software engineering, product management, engineering program management, technical account management, sales engineering, or a related field.
  
• Experience in an analytical role such as business intelligence, data analytics, or statistics.
  
• Experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
  
• Experience writing programming code in SQL, Go, and Python.
  
• Experience with music licensing or agreement negotiations.
  

About the job

The Music Partner Engineering (MPE) team delivers exceptional support for the music industry. As a center of excellence in solving technical problems at scale, we deliver solutions to help our music partners provide the highest product quality across our vibrant digital ecosystem.

The Music Publishing Field Partner Engineering team works with the Business Development team to license music rights through music publishers and collection societies. We are the bridge between Business, Product and Engineering, building and owning technical solutions to accelerate the launch of new products, grow the business of our partners and enabling YouTube users to enjoy their music on YouTube.

As a Manager, you will have a direct impact on a business enjoyed by millions of music lovers. You will be a technologist taking responsibility for the success of YouTube’s largest Music partnerships, leading and inspiring your team, owning technical deployments, optimizing implementations, driving new business opportunities and seeking innovative solutions in the fluid work of digital music to build strong, successful, long-term partnerships.

In this role, you will grow in a fast-paced, market-driven environment and want to address both technical and business challenges in the same role. You will have the opportunity to lead people, projects and cross-functional teams and should be a motivated individual looking to solidify YouTube’s strategic partnerships with the largest traditional Music partners (e.g., pan-territorial music publishers) and the most successful new media partners that have grown large businesses almost exclusively on YouTube.

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 $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

• Manage a team of Field Partner Engineers managing large Music Publishing partners in North America and providing global centralized support for small partners. Inspire your team to own the technical solutions and foster a prototyping culture.
  
• Define the regional strategy and work closely with the leads to shape the future of the Music Publishing operations.
  
• Work closely with the Business team to negotiate new agreements. Own the technical relationship with our partners, providing technical guidance and documentation for their integration with our platform.
  
• Identify, drive, and optimize existing and new business opportunities, leveraging YouTube technologies through prototyping and innovation, ensuring prompt and proper resolution of technical challenges.
  
• Perform implementation reviews, advocate new product features and internal tools, and improve product features by providing partner feedback to internal cross-functional teams.

Perform implementation reviews, advocate new product features and internal tools, and improve product features by providing partner feedback to internal cross-functional teams.