Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Video Editing, YouTube

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Agentic Video Editing team within YouTube. You will mentor engineers, shape technical roadmaps, and drive a high-velocity, high-quality engineering culture across multiple sites.

You will partner with product, UX, and partner teams to translate ambitious goals into reliable creator experiences worldwide. In this role, you guide architecture, balance a large budget, and ensure scalable systems that meet massive global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or GenAI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role; provide regular feedback.
• Develop long-term technical goals and roadmaps within and beyond the team's scope.
• Oversee system designs within the broader area and review code to solve problems.
• Drive engineering standards and ensure scalable, production-ready systems.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

GenAI techniques

Cross-functional collaboration

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager, Agentic Video Editing, YouTube

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development.
  
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 2 years of experience with GenAI techniques (e.g., LLMs, Multi-Modal, Large Vision Models) or with GenAI-related concepts (language modeling, computer vision ).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading engineering teams building LLM/multimodal agents, tool-augmented systems, or creative/video software.
• Experience managing joint initiatives between research organizations (e.g., DeepMind) and product/infrastructure engineering teams.
• Strong product and operational intuition, with experience establishing evaluation frameworks (AutoRaters, benchmarks, rater ops) for generative media quality.
  
• Proven success managing teams that land AI/ML research into high-scale, consumer-facing production applications.

About the job

Like Google’s own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In this role, you will lead our dedicated Agentic Video Editing engineering team. You will guide, mentor, and inspire a team of talented software engineers while establishing a healthy, and high-velocity engineering culture. You will partner extensively with cross-functional peers, including Product Managers, UX designers, and partner engineering teams, to translate the bold long-term goal of agentic video creation into dependable, intuitive, and production-grade creator experiences worldwide. You will drive technical roadmaps, eliminate operational blockers, advocate engineering standards, and ensure our systems scale reliably to meet massive global demand, ultimately defining the future of AI-powered video creation for creators everywhere.

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.

About the job

Like Google’s own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

In this role, you will lead our dedicated Agentic Video Editing engineering team. You will guide, mentor, and inspire a team of talented software engineers while establishing a healthy, and high-velocity engineering culture. You will partner extensively with cross-functional peers, including Product Managers, UX designers, and partner engineering teams, to translate the bold long-term goal of agentic video creation into dependable, intuitive, and production-grade creator experiences worldwide. You will drive technical roadmaps, eliminate operational blockers, advocate engineering standards, and ensure our systems scale reliably to meet massive global demand, ultimately defining the future of AI-powered video creation for creators everywhere.

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.

• Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader organization's goals. Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.
  
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals. Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
  
• Develop the long-term technical goals and roadmap within, and often beyond, the scope of your teams. Evolve the roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Oversee systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and review product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
  
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  

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