Scaled Partnerships Associate, Strategic Partnership Manager, GCN (English, Mandarin)

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.

As an Associate Strategic Partner Manager for YouTube Scaled Partnerships in Greater China (GCN), you will step into the vibrant core of the digital creator economy. This early-career role is tailored for enthusiastic high-potential professionals seeking to build foundational expertise in partner management, creator development, digital media, and social commerce. Working closely with senior mentors, you will master operational foundations, manage a portfolio of emerging creators, drive partner onboarding, and help creators adopt vital monetization solutions—including creator shopping integrations and brand collaboration opportunities.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- Professional experience or relevant internships in partner management, account management, business development, marketing, or general business operations.

- Ability to communicate in English and Mandarin fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

- Comfort working with basic performance data, platform analytics, and reporting tools to evaluate partner trends and synthesize insights.

- Strong passion for the digital video, media, and entertainment industries, with an interest in how creators create content and build businesses.

- Interest in learning technical platform concepts, monetization models, creator shopping integrations, and Copyright fundamentals.

- Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with a proactive, eager-to-learn attitude in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate concepts clearly, listen actively, and build collaborative partner relationships.

- Maintain and support direct relationships across a portfolio of emerging creators. Manage day-to-day communications, operational requests, and partner health tracking.

- Coordinate scaled partner onboarding workflows (including new creator acceleration programs), guiding partners through channel setup, agreements, and tool activations.

- Educate creators on YouTube features, optimization strategies, and monetization pathways, with a focus on creator shopping and brand agreement best practices.

- Support the execution of scaled partner initiatives, educational webinars, industry workshops, and creator events designed to accelerate emerging talent across Greater China.

- Collaborate with internal teams—including Sales, Marketing, Policy, and Technical Operations—to resolve partner inquiries and advocate for creator needs. Shadow senior partner managers on complex partner initiatives, strategic negotiations, and ecosystem projects, actively building business development capabilities.