Team

Heather Rivera

ACCELERATOR

Heather Rivera is a seasoned technology executive with a track record of building and scaling high-performing, global teams. She has deep expertise in striking innovative partnerships that drive growth for both ad-supported and subscriptions-based consumer internet businesses in the payments, commerce, and media and entertainment industries. She has extensive experience managing complex technology ecosystems and has held roles in business development, product strategy, and strategy & operations.

Currently, Heather is YouTube’s Vice President and Global Head of Product Partnerships, where she leads a global team that is responsible for enabling the launch, distribution, and adoption of YouTube’s suite of products (e.g. YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube TV, and more) through partnerships with a variety of partners, including technology companies, e-commerce platforms, mobile carriers, and consumer electronics companies, around the globe. Prior to YouTube, Heather held various roles at Google, including Google’s New Business Development team, Google Checkout, and Google Analytics. She also led strategy & operations for the Creative Lab, Google’s acclaimed, in-house creative agency and group of interdisciplinary thinkers and doers.

Prior to joining Google in 2007, Heather was an analyst at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in the Humanities from the University of Chicago with a focus on Art History and on Latin American Studies, and she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with a degree in Economics and French.

She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter and is an avid tennis player.