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Product Manager II, YouTube Live Discovery

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Compensation
$163–236K/yr
Location
San Bruno, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Product Manager for YouTube Live Discovery will build recommendation systems that connect viewers with live content across Home, Shorts, Watch Next, and Search. The role partners with Machine Learning teams on real-time retrieval and ranking, cold starts, and quality-first growth. It leads discovery strategy and experimentation, shaping real-time content distribution and balancing ecosystem health, compute cost, and shared distribution.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product Management, requiredTechnical Product Launch, requiredGenerative AI Integration, requiredRecommendation Systems, nice to haveSearch Quality, nice to haveReal-Time Content Discovery, nice to haveExperimentation, nice to haveMetrics Design, nice to haveMachine Learning Launches, nice to haveContent Understanding, nice to haveCross-Functional Collaboration, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required5 Years Product Management Experience, required2 Years Technical Product Launch Experience, requiredMaster's Degree in Technology or Business, nice to haveEnglish Proficiency, required

Full job description

Product Manager II, YouTube Live Discovery

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

  • Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in a technology or business related field.

  • Experience with recommendation systems, search quality, or real-time content discovery.

  • Experience with experimentation, metrics design, and landing Machine Learning launches with engineering teams.

  • Experience using Generative AI or Large Language Models for content understanding and quality evaluations.

  • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, research, and other stakeholders to launch technical products.

About the job

YouTube is a place where everyone has a voice. To support our vibrant global community, we need product leaders who can build at an unprecedented scale. YouTube Live connects people through shared live experiences and shows them what is authentically happening in the world. As the industry leader in live watch time and viewership, we connect hundreds of millions of daily viewers to real-time moments.

As a Product Manager for YouTube Live Discovery, you will build the recommendation systems that connect billions of viewers with what is happening right now across Home, Shorts, Watch Next, and Search. You will partner with dedicated Machine Learning teams to manage complex technical challenges, including real-time retrieval and ranking for an ephemeral corpus, overcoming cold starts, and driving quality-first growth. By leading experimentation and shaping discovery strategy, you will have a direct impact on the future of real-time content distribution.

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

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

Responsibilities

  • Define the product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for YouTube Live Discovery across multiple surfaces.

  • Partner with Machine Learning teams to set objectives, requirements, and launch criteria for retrieval, ranking, and real-time signals.

  • Solve cold start problems to onboard new viewers and match streams to audiences while balancing exploration and exploitation.

  • Lead quality-first growth by turning content understanding into Machine Learning using large language models and negative-feedback signals.

  • Own measurement by defining next-gen satisfaction metrics, designing experiments, and making strategic launch decisions on tradeoffs involving ecosystem health, compute cost, and shared distribution.

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How this job compares

Set against the 10,185 open Product Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$163–236K/yr
  • California median$179–269K/yr1,481 salary ranges
  • US median$150–227K/yr8,552 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $200K, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($224K) — in the middle half of Product Management salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,727 open Product Management jobs in California and 10,185 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Product Management postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (8,616 postings).
Education
3,084 of the 10,185 open Product Management jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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