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Product Manager, YouTube Sensitive Content

YouTube
San Bruno, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/14/2026

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
  • 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
  • Experience with products that utilize Machine Learning, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working and communicating in areas with significant leadership and stakeholder scrutiny.
  • Experience working in product areas that are at the intersection of engineering and public policy.
  • Knowledge in digital well-being, public policy, content safety, or trust and safety issues.

About the job

At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing, so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development.

One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users.


In this role, you will build impactful user-centered features while leveraging the latest technologies in ML and AI. On this team, you will work amongst Product Managers that support Responsible Growth at YouTube; working on identifying sensitive content that viewers may find hateful, harmful, misleading or misleading. This is a high complexity, visibility and impact issues that sits at the intersection of technology, user safety, and policy.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$229,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Work on YouTube's sensitive content systems with a focus on measurement, metrics, and operational responsiveness.
  • Define the product goal, strategy, and roadmap for metric foundations by assessing how we can efficiently measure system performance.
  • Improve operational resilience by determining how to invest in threat detection and operational processes to decrease turn-around-time and increase scale when responding to new types of challenging content or world events.
  • Partner with engineering to incorporate LLMs across our metrics and operational systems.
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners including Data Science, Trust and Safety, Public Policy, Legal, and local market specialists to identify and rapidly respond to emerging content trends and prevent escalations.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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