Product Activation Manager, Trust and Safety, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.
  
• 2 years of experience with database querying and SQL.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g., management consulting, investment banking, or corporate strategy).
  
• Experience with online safety and addressing adversarial actors or tactics.
• Experience presenting to senior audiences, working cross-functionally with business and technical teams, and with database querying and SQL.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and learn across different subject matters and priorities.
• Ability to communicate and influence, with excellent presentation skills.
  
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

About the job

The YouTube Business Product Activation team is responsible for bringing products to market. The team works with both business and product leaders to develop, launch, and land YouTube products across the partner and creator ecosystem. The team designs go-to-market strategies, ensure launch readiness, prioritize product adoption opportunities for creators, work to understand the needs of partners, creators, and users to shape product roadmaps, collect and synthesize user feedback, and track performance.

Within the Trust and Safety team on YouTube Product Activation, you will focus on preventing abuse on the platform, protecting the community from harmful content and improving the creator policy experience. You will collaborate cross-functionally with YouTube Product Management, Engineering, User Experience and Research, Policy, Public Policy, Public Relations, Legal, Marketing and Support teams. The goal is to protect the community from abusive content and adversarial actors while building trust in the systems and ensuring creators can reach resolution for their policy issues.

As a Product Activation Manager, you will drive strategy and operations for YouTube's Trust and Safety team, from ensuring go-to-market readiness on product launches to understanding market feedback and conducting analyses around creator impact. You will be a subject matter expert on how YouTube keeps the platform safe, with an immediate focus on YouTube Community Guidelines and improving the policy experience for YouTube creators.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $114,000-$167,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Develop go-to-market strategies and plans to support YouTube Trust and Safety launches, including impact analysis, adoption goals, communication levers, support for viewers and creators, and messaging.
  
• Shape product roadmap by analyzing and representing viewer and partner feedback.
  
• Execute quantitative analyses using SQL and spreadsheets to translate datasets about partners, products, and users into insights.
  
• Drive operational excellence, including setting and tracking OKRs and driving quarterly and annual planning with cross-functional teams.
  
• Act as the owner for business strategies, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Legal, Public Policy, Marketing, Comms), and structure, track, and communicate work-streams with cross-functional teams and executives.