About the job

Our mission is to incubate early stage partnership initiatives and scale new and existing initiatives globally with operational excellence to fuel YouTube's subscriptions growth.

We own strategic partner engagement, technical solution design and implementation, technical consulting for internal and external business stakeholders, and tools and services for scaled operations. YouTube Commerce Platform and Premium, and TV subscriptions are some of the product areas our team works on, bringing partnerships agreements to life and driving business impact.

YouTube's Commerce Partner Engineering team is a global team responsible for enabling product partnership initiatives for the success and growth of YouTube's subscriptions products. This includes solutions engineering with leading telecom companies, process engineering of new product solutions and tools, and data and insights for business teams.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical integrations with partners (mainly telcos) in APAC, and ensure the prompt resolution of pre and post launch technical challenges.

• Understand operational workflows, and identify and address tool needs to enable operational scaling of partner integrations.

• Improve product feature offerings by advocating for new product features and providing partner feedback to Product Management and Engineering.

• Provide technical consulting and data insights to business teams.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).

• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).

• 3 years of experience managing partner or client-facing projects, troubleshooting technical issues for partners or customers.

• Experience with data analysis and database management (e.g., SQL, Python, etc.).

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• Experience in an analytical role such as business intelligence, data analytics, or statistics.

• Passion for the media industry.

• Ability to communicate in Japanese fluently, in order to communicate effectively with local partners.