YouTube - San Bruno, CA

posted 5 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
San Bruno, CA
Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

As a Social Escalation Communication Manager at YouTube, you will be part of a global team dedicated to providing 24/7 communication and escalation coverage. Your primary responsibility will be to publish timely communications across various social media platforms, community forums, and YouTube channels. This role requires collaboration with multiple teams, including Public Relations (PR), Marketing, Trust and Safety, Legal, Product, and Engineering, to effectively resolve public support issues and manage escalation incidents. You will be tasked with handling sensitive priority incidents, which will involve real-time problem-solving, managing executive stakeholders, and driving decision-making with minimal supervision. In addition to your core responsibilities, you will focus on driving continuous improvement in social communications, engagement strategies, and internal escalation protocols. This may include enhancing the reactive communication experience for specific product areas or developing preventative solutions to mitigate future escalations and high-profile events. You will monitor and respond to critical escalations from social media platforms, working closely with various teams to craft external communications and resolve issues promptly. Your role will also involve efficiently triaging incidents and publishing proactive communications while adhering to service level agreements to ensure timely responses. This position offers a competitive salary range, with the US base salary for this full-time role set between $106,000 and $156,000, depending on various factors such as location, skills, experience, and education. The compensation details provided reflect the base salary only and do not include bonuses, equity, or benefits, which can be discussed further during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a wide range of escalations, including platform outages, technical issues, creator support requests, high-profile social media complaints, and executive concerns.
  • Enable our social and community vendor operation by providing urgent guidance to agent teams, developing new processes to address emerging online conversation trends, and managing consults from agents.
  • Be a subject matter expert on trending YouTube topics and related social media conversations, contributing valuable insights to weekly internal reports.
  • Collaborate proactively with cross-functional teams to align on communication strategies and stay ahead of escalation trends.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for enhancing the user experience, external communications, and internal escalation protocols.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in journalism, public relations, internal or executive communications, or a related field.
  • Experience managing external communications, including public platforms and social media.
  • Experience in crisis response or escalation management.

Nice-to-haves

  • Knowledge of YouTube product and policy, YouTube creators and their communities, Internet culture, and an avid user of social media.
  • Understanding of editorial and creative content development, storytelling techniques, and external communications trends and best practices.
  • Ability to analyze data, identify trends and present key findings to improve future programs and strategies.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Employee discounts
  • Professional development opportunities
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