YouTube · 1 month ago
Senior Product Manager, Generative AI Chat Safety, YouTube
San Bruno, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$183K/yr - $271K/yr
8+ years expYouTube is a platform that prioritizes user safety and innovation. In this role, you will lead the safety strategy for YouTube's interactive features, collaborating cross-functionally to embed safety by design principles and develop AI-powered systems that detect and prevent issues.
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Responsibilities
Define and own the strategic roadmap for multi-turn safety and build safety principles and translate into a product strategy. Determine how to effectively implement safety by design into chatbot architecture, partnering with legal, policy, research, engineering, and customer teams
Define product principles that prioritize long-term user mental health and wellness, support that with testing, metrics, and responsibility systems
Own the strategy behind system instructions, contextual safety instructions, classifiers to steer feature behavior, translating high-level policy into product safety/responsibility
Architect safety evaluation frameworks and lead the development of evaluation metrics, adversarial testing protocols, and benchmarks so customers can validate safety prior to deployment covering security, safety, and behavioral risks
Synthesize the internal and external AI landscape to ensure our systems/capabilities and our user experience is engaged
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
8 years of experience in product management or related technical role
2 years of experience in Large Language Model (LLM) steering, including prompt engineering, model alignment, or crafting system instructions such as contextual safety instructions to control model persona, tone, and boundary adherence
2 years of experience in building responsibility/safety stacks
Preferred
Experience in developing strategy
Experience with approaches to model evaluations, including designed and interpreted safety evaluations, managing adversarial datasets (red teaming) and defining quantitative metrics to measure improvement over time
Experience in partnering with engineering to make architectural and product decisions, such as weighing the latency and cost of external guardrails against the effectiveness of upstream model training
Ability to bring perspective on product quality that extends beyond safety to include user wellness
Familiarity with age-gating, parental controls, or Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)/ General Data Protection Regulation - Kids (GDPR-K) compliance
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
YouTube
YouTube is a platform for sharing and watching videos, including movies, music clips, and amateur content.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$11.5MKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2006-10-01Acquired
2006-03-30Series Unknown· $8M
2005-11-01Series A· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Neal Mohan
CEO
Angela Courtin
Vice President, YouTube Marketing Brand, Creative, Culture & Media
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