Product Manager, YouTube Discovery and AI Experiences

About the job

As a part of the YouTube Discovery Product Management (PM) team, you will be responsible for the Home feed, personalized recommendations, Watch Next, and other features which drive the majority of the total time that users spend watching YouTube. You will seek to optimize the end-to-end discovery journey across product surfaces so that browsing and exploring content is as seamless and efficient as possible. You will require great product insights, a blend of technical and user experience knowledge, a healthy respect for the opportunity, and the ability to work horizontally across many different partner teams.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Work closely with UX and Engineering stakeholders to define a strategy and roadmap for experiences that improve content discovery and recommendations on YouTube, including through AI-enabled features like prompt-backed custom feeds.
• Drive YouTube watch time, visits or satisfaction through roadmap execution, including the internationalization of custom feeds.
• Partner with teams across the company to help different format/vertical teams achieve their goals while respecting overall Discovery/Homepage design and user principles.
• Communicate product strategy and roadmaps across the organization to build alignment for long-term investments and priorities.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking consumer-facing technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
• 2 years of experience in AI/ML driven product development.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with AI/ML systems and algorithmic recommendations.
• High familiarity with and usage of AI tools.
• Fluency in basic data concepts and processes (hypothesis driven approach, basic statistics etc.) and experience using quantitative and qualitative research methods to provide insight into a problem/issue, answer questions, or to guide solutions.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking consumer-facing technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
• 2 years of experience in AI/ML driven product development.