Brand Media Strategy & Analytics Manager
Mountain View, California, San Francisco, California$177k - $218kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Hybrid role in marketing focused on leading brand media strategy, planning, and analytics to build market-wide familiarity for Waymo’s autonomous driving technology, collaborating across growth, data, and agency partners to drive both brand health and performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and deployment of high-impact brand media across digital (CTV, programmatic video, paid social) and offline channels (linear TV, OOH, cinema, local sponsorships).
- Partner on full-funnel media strategy with Growth to create high-intent audience pipelines for retargeting and conversion.
- Manage and track strategic allocation of brand media budget balancing upper-funnel brand health with lower-funnel acquisition.
- Guide agency partners in developing media plans that build brand awareness and trust while maintaining precise targeting, frequency caps, and agility for performance scaling.
- Collaborate with growth and data teams to build unified audience segmentation strategies using first-party data and brand lift insights for lookalike models.
- Map how upper-funnel brand investments impact downstream growth metrics, including foundational MMM (mixed-media modeling).
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience managing large-scale paid media campaigns with a track record of brand-building accelerating growth marketing velocity.
- Direct experience working with growth performance or lifecycle marketing teams to pass audiences through awareness to first ride.
- Operational knowledge of brand-heavy mediums (Out-of-Home, linear/connected TV, audio) and digital platforms (Meta, YouTube, TikTok, programmatic DSPs).
- Proven success managing top-tier media planning and buying agencies, prioritizing deliverables, negotiating inventory, and maintaining creative standards.
- Strong fluency in brand health tracking (awareness, consideration, trust) and performance metrics (CAC, LTV, conversion rates, ROAS).
- Exceptional communication skills enabling alignment across creative teams, product marketing, growth, and finance around a cohesive media narrative.
Skills
Required:Brand media strategyMedia planning and buyingAudience segmentation
Nice to have:MMM / MTA
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Equity incentive plan
- Generous Company benefits program
- Flexible work options including on-site or hybrid models, remote working opportunities, paid time off, bereavement, sick, and parental leave
- Education reimbursement, personal and professional development opportunities, ERG involvement and volunteer time off
- Access to Google offices, cafes, wellness centers, massages, at-home fitness and cooking classes
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Waymo
The World’s Most Experienced Driver
Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and easy for people & things to get around with autonomous vehicles.
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