from Google’s job description listed under “Team Manager, Entertainment Vertical – Irvine or Santa Monica.”

excerpt: “As a Google Entertainment Team Manager you’ll help to provide integrated, cross-platform advertising solutions for media and entertainment clients including TV, movie, gaming, music and web publishing companies. Google has become a leader in this space because we’ve developed effective products and services targeted to entertainment marketers and consumers. You’ll serve as a mini-CEO responsible for developing and implementing strategies to sustain and grow a multi-million-dollar revenue business in the Entertainment industry. This will require you to hire, train and lead your Advertising Sales team, whose job is to sell and provide Google advertising solutions to Fortune 1000 clients and the agencies that serve them… You’ll own the relationships with clients and agencies, which includes targeting, educating and developing new clients to grow the business in unpenetrated territory. You have excellent client-servicing and relationship skills along with the entrepreneurial drive to approach and persuade new and existing customers with large, multi-faceted propositions.”

We also think the job entitled “Brand Accelerator” is interesting. Here’s an excerpt as well:

The primary objective of the Google Brand Accelerator (GBA) is to become the indispensable partner to advertisers and agencies for building brands online. GBA will allow Google to consistently deliver the most efficient and effective digital platform upon which the world’s leading brands are built. We will connect advertisers’ brand message to the target audience at the highest moment of relevance through innovative and accountable online marketing solutions that offer unmatched precision and scale… Responsibilities:…

  • Develop compelling programs in response to RFPs delivered by agency and advertiser clients.
  • Liaise with the YouTube product team in the development of new products, verticals and sponsor-able opportunities; deliver marketer/sales point-of-view to help shape these new offerings and maximize revenue…

Author: jeff

Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. A former journalist and filmmaker, Jeff's book on U.S. electronic media politics, entitled "Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy" was published by The New Press in January 2007. He is now working on a new book about interactive advertising and the public interest.

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