
Product Manager, YouTube Discovery and AI Experiences
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Job overview
The Product Manager will join YouTube’s Discovery team, shaping the Home feed, personalized recommendations, Watch Next, and other features that drive viewing. The role focuses on improving the end-to-end discovery journey across product surfaces, including AI-enabled experiences such as prompt-backed custom feeds. The manager will work across UX, Engineering, and partner teams to set strategy, execute roadmaps, and build alignment around long-term priorities.
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Product Manager, YouTube Discovery and AI Experiences
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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
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2 years of experience taking consumer-facing technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
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2 years of experience in AI/ML driven product development.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience with AI/ML systems and algorithmic recommendations.
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High familiarity with and usage of AI tools.
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Fluency in basic data concepts and processes (hypothesis driven approach, basic statistics etc.) and experience using quantitative and qualitative research methods to provide insight into a problem/issue, answer questions, or to guide solutions.
About the job
As a part of the YouTube Discovery Product Management (PM) team, you will be responsible for the Home feed, personalized recommendations, Watch Next, and other features which drive the majority of the total time that users spend watching YouTube. You will seek to optimize the end-to-end discovery journey across product surfaces so that browsing and exploring content is as seamless and efficient as possible. You will require great product insights, a blend of technical and user experience knowledge, a healthy respect for the opportunity, and the ability to work horizontally across many different partner teams.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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 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
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Work closely with UX and Engineering stakeholders to define a strategy and roadmap for experiences that improve content discovery and recommendations on YouTube, including through AI-enabled features like prompt-backed custom feeds.
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Drive YouTube watch time, visits or satisfaction through roadmap execution, including the internationalization of custom feeds.
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Partner with teams across the company to help different format/vertical teams achieve their goals while respecting overall Discovery/Homepage design and user principles.
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Communicate product strategy and roadmaps across the organization to build alignment for long-term investments and priorities.
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How this job compares
Set against the 7,198 open Product Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$163–236K/yr
- California median$170–241K/yr1,245 salary ranges
- US median$140–210K/yr5,875 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $200K, is 3% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Product Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,466 open Product Manager jobs in California and 7,198 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- 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 (6,238 postings).
- Education
- 1,989 of the 7,198 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 14, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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