Senior Product Manager, YouTube Main App

The YouTube Main App team is responsible for the core viewer experience for YouTube spanning across Android, iOS, and web. It’s where billions of viewers visit every day to be entertained, learn a new skill, feel connected, be better informed, and pursue a multitude of interests and goals. Main App supports the majority of YouTube's watchtime, revenue, and viewer engagement. The Main App Product Management (PM) team drives the design of this viewer experience and are advocates for the viewer.

In this role, you will lead the charge for YouTube Everywhere. You will define how YouTube lives beyond its own apps driving the strategy for web, mobile web, and the embedded player both across all Google products and key global partners.

You will be a part of the reason Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management (PM). You will work with creative engineers, designers, marketers, and more to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. You will be responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users. 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product goal and roadmap for the YouTube Embedded Player and Web surfaces, ensuring a premium, consistent viewer experience across all Google products.
• Drive the end-to-end development of YouTube integrations on nascent devices and technologies, transitioning experimental "first-of-kind" concepts into scalable, viewer products.
• Act as the primary product lead for complex collaborations with internal Google teams and external industry leaders to co-create holistic integrations that expand YouTube’s reach while protecting brand and User Experience (UX) integrity.
• Balance a threefold mandate to maximize viewer engagement, extend the reach of the Main App to new audiences, and drive sustainable value for YouTube’s broader creator and advertiser ecosystem.
• Navigate high-stakes trade-offs by aligning senior stakeholders across Engineering, Design, and Business Development, serving as a advocate for the viewer while solving for fragmented technical and platform constraints.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management.
• 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, 0 to 1).
• Experience working on consumer products, mobile app/web.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation methodologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree, MBA or PhD in a technology or a business related field.
• 8 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, partnerships, and other stakeholders.
• 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership.
• 2 years of experience as a management consultant or investment banking.
• Experience as a founder.