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Product Manager II, Trust and Safety Detection, YouTube

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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 II will guide YouTube trust and safety products from conception to launch, focusing on the safety of images and text across features such as comments, community posts, and live chat. The role connects policy, detection systems, and human enforcement, defines safety goals and measurement, and develops shared systems and more focused detection models in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product ManagementTechnical Product LaunchArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningTrust and SafetyProduct PolicyBusiness StrategyAI/ML Product StrategyContent ModerationAbuse PreventionSafety MetricsSamplingHuman Rating ProgramsAutomated RatersPlatform OwnershipEngineering Trade-OffsMachine Learning SystemsOperational Response ProcessesCross-Functional Decision-Making

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience5+ Years Product Management or Related Technical Experience2+ Years Technical Product Launch ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 5 years of experience in product management or 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 developing or launching products or technologies within artificial intelligence or Machine Learning (AI/ML).

  • Experience in trust and safety, product policy, business strategy, or a related field.

  • Experience developing product strategy for AI/ML-driven products or product features.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in trust and safety, content moderation, or abuse prevention for user-generated content.

  • Experience defining quality or safety metrics and building the measurement behind them (sampling, human rating programs, automated raters).

  • Experience owning a platform or shared service used by many internal product teams.

  • Experience making engineering trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and cost in machine learning systems.

  • Experience designing operational response processes with operations or support teams.

  • Ability to bring clarity and decisions to a cross-functional organization.

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.

Most people think of YouTube as a video platform. But every day, people create far more images and text on YouTube than videos: comments, community posts, live chat messages, video thumbnails, channel profile pictures, banners, names, and descriptions. These features are everywhere across the product, they are growing quickly, and new ones launch all the time. Keeping them safe sustainably is one of the largest problems in Trust and Safety.

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

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

Responsibilities

  • Understand how our policies, our detection systems, and our human enforcement fit together today, articulate a compelling picture of where image and text safety needs to be, and make the case for what has to change—in policy, in systems, or in process—to get there.

  • Define how we measure this for every feature and every policy, and you own the goals.

  • Turn today's one-off, feature-by-feature safety work into a shared system that any team at YouTube can plug into.

  • Support fewer and better detection models instead of many overlapping ones.

  • Make deliberate trade-offs about where to spend and where to simplify.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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How this job compares

Set against the 8,349 open Product Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$163–236K/yr
  • California median$170–242K/yr1,474 salary ranges
  • US median$140–210K/yr6,551 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $200K, is 3% below the California median midpoint ($207K) — in the middle half of Product Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,769 open Product Manager jobs in California and 8,349 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 Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (7,090 postings).
Education
2,333 of the 8,349 open Product Manager jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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