Product Manager, YouTube Youth Content Quality, Responsible Growth

The YouTube Youth team builds products for YouTube users under 18 worldwide. From the YouTube Kids app for our youngest users to our Supervised Experiences for tweens to the YouTube that teens know and love, we offer teen users a window to the world. Our northstar is that Kids love it, Parents trust it.
Within YouTube Youth, the Content and Strategic Bets team is responsible for quality and content classifiers, youth-specific ranking and recommendations, principles governing what content our teen users have access to and unique experiences within kid accounts. Our work is a combination system of human-driven principles + AI machinery, used to balance the goals of fun, enrichment, responsibility and growth to meet the needs of both kids and parents.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, 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 cutting-edge 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: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.

- 1 year of experience building, deploying, or evaluating recommendation systems and signal-based models (e.g., retrieval, personalization, content classification, or search quality) in production.

- Experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., product management on a machine learning-oriented software development team).

- 3 years of experience in a technical function (e.g. software engineering, data science, strategy, etc.).

- Experience driving the product life-cycle: identifying user needs, defining roadmaps, authoring requirements, collaborating with engineering, and managing launches.

- Experience conducting user research and rigorous product evaluations to balance user delight with safety, quality, and trust in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem.

- Experience using generative AI tools and workflows for prototyping.

- Deep experience with content recommendations or video classification products.

- Help make under-18 accounts appealing to kids and trusted by parents, across our experiences for kids, tweens and teens.

- Work with our recommendations engineering team to ensure we have the best recommendations for kids and teens.

- Identify signals that there may be a teen user watching on their parents account, so we can suggest creating a kid account. Identify signals that a user in a kid account might be ready for expanded content (which helps retain them in u18 accounts.)

- Identify content-related features that package content in a way that's enriching, responsible and appealing to kids.