Product Manager, YouTube Discovery and AI Experiences

YouTube’s Discovery PM team builds the experiences that shape how viewers find what to watch next, from the Home feed to personalized recommendations and Watch Next. In this Product Manager role, you will translate product strategy into an execution plan across teams, including AI-enabled experiences that improve content discovery and recommendations.

Working onsite in San Bruno, CA, you will own the roadmap and alignment needed to drive outcomes such as watch time, visits, and/or satisfaction. The position is designed for a product leader who can balance user needs, technical considerations, and cross-functional execution to support long-term investments.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with UX and Engineering stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap for YouTube experiences that improve content discovery and recommendations, including AI-enabled features such as prompt-backed custom feeds.
• Execute the roadmap to drive watch time, visits, or satisfaction, including internationalization of custom feeds.
• Partner with teams across YouTube to help different format or vertical teams meet their goals while maintaining Discovery/Homepage design and user principles.
• Share product strategy and roadmap broadly to build alignment on long-term investments, priorities, and execution.

What you bring

• 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 (for example, ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1).
• 2+ years of experience in AI/ML driven product development.
• Experience with AI/ML systems and algorithmic recommendations.
• High familiarity with and hands-on usage of AI tools.
• Fluency in basic data concepts and processes, including a hypothesis-driven approach and basic statistics, plus experience using quantitative and qualitative research methods to guide problem solving and solution decisions.

Compensation and benefits

• USD 163,000 - 236,000 per year
• 15% bonus target
• Equity
• Benefits