Senior Product Manager, YouTube GenAI Responsibility

Google; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

YouTube is seeking a Senior Product Manager for GenAI Responsibility to own safety, quality, and responsibility strategy for conversational AI on Search and Watch. You will influence features addressing sensitive topics with rigorous evaluation and cross-functional collaboration.

The role requires leading teams across Engineering, UX, Policy, and Legal to ensure safe, accurate, and valuable user experiences at scale, while aligning with global policies and evolving regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of product mgmt or related technical role.
• 3 years in consumer product mgmt delivering consumer-facing software from concept to launch.
• Experience building products with machine learning, LLMs or generative AI.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams (Eng, UX, Policy, Legal).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive end-to-end responsibility strategy and roadmap for genAI products (Ask Search, Ask Watch).
• Develop scalable evaluation frameworks to measure GenAI response quality on sensitive topics.
• Partner with GenAI Eng and Research to develop guardrails, prompt guidelines, and response-filtering models.
• Collaborate with Trust and Safety, Policy, Legal, and PR to align with platform policies and regional regs.
• Design experiments to measure safety interventions impact on user satisfaction.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Decision making

Ambiguity solving

Stakeholder influence

GenAI/ML/LLMs

Cross-functional leadership

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

ML platforms

Job description

Senior Product Manager, YouTube GenAI Responsibility

Company: YouTube
Location: San Bruno, CA, USA

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
• 3 years of experience in consumer product management, specifically delivering consumer-facing software products from concept to launch.
• Experience building and launching products utilizing machine learning, large language models (LLMs), or generative AI technologies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams (including Engineering, UX, Policy, and Legal) to align on and launch features.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• 5 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales finance, and other stakeholders.
• 5 years of experience in a business function or role (e.g., marketing, business operations, consulting).
• 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership.
• 3 years of experience in software development or engineering.
• 3 years of people management experience with direct reports, and in technical leadership.

About the job

As the Senior Product Manager for GenAI Responsibility, you will own the safety, quality, and responsibility strategy for YouTube’s conversational AI products on Search and Watch. These features allow users to search for content and ask follow-up questions about the videos they are watching. Your mission is to ensure that when users ask about sensitive topics – such as medical advice, financial planning, election details, or breaking news – the AI provides highly accurate, helpful, and safe responses.

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: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end responsibility strategy and roadmap for conversational GenAI products (Ask Search, Ask Watch) on sensitive topics.
• Develop scalable evaluation frameworks (using both human raters and LLM-as-a-judge methodologies) to measure and monitor GenAI response quality on sensitive topics globally.
• Partner with GenAI Engineering and Research to develop, test, and launch safety guardrails, prompt engineering guidelines, and response-filtering models.
• Collaborate closely with Trust and Safety, Policy, Legal, and PR to ensure GenAI responses align with YouTube’s global platform policies and rapidly evolving regional regulations.
• Design and analyze complex experiments to measure how safety interventions impact both responsibility goals and core user satisfaction metrics.

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