Head of Agencies and Partners, Google Customer

Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience - 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, or business at an agency, consultant, technology, or media company - 7 years of experience in people management and leadership - Ability to travel domestically up to 20% of the time Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree or other advanced degree - Ability to influence and manage multiple projects simultaneously - Ability to manage individuals and develop teams - Ability to think strategically about complex issues and develop recommendations and action plans - Excellent business development, client relationship/servicing, and solution-based selling skills **About the job**: Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users. As the Head of Agencies and Partners, you will focus on empowering the team to grow long-term relationships with Premier Partner agencies. You will influence and manage Google's agency team to provide service to agency partners. You will work with the team to develop Google solutions to support the agencies on driving business growth through existing customers and improving the Agency Go-To-Market (GTM) capabilities through education, agreements, and strategic value adds. When our millions of advertisers and publishers are happy, so are we Our Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused members are the "human face" of Google, helping entrepreneurs both individually and broadly build their online presence and grow their businesses. We are dedicated to growing the unique needs of advertising companies. Our teams of strategists, analysts, advisers and support specialists collaborate closely to spot and analyze customer needs and trends. In collaboration, we create and implement business plans broadly for all types of businesses. **Responsibilities**: - Achieve business priorities and goals while delivering an outstanding experience to our agency partners. - Collaborate, grow, and consult with primary agency executives with the goal of extending relationships, increasing client and agency base, and optimizing advertising investment. - Mentor, develop, and manage the agency team with a key focus on identifying individuals strengths, and creating a culture of feedback. - Contribute to the Google Customer Solutions (GCS) business by leading cross-functional initiatives and supporting other managers and initiatives. - Own and develop relationships with Google's internal stakeholders regionally and locally to provide best experience to partners, clients, and team members. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.