Chief product officer Neal Mohan will take over YouTube as a senior vice president.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her post, she announced in an email sent to employees that YouTube posted publicly on Thursday. Wojcicki has been at Google for nearly 25 years but will be stepping back to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.”
Neal Mohan, currently YouTube’s chief product officer, will be taking over as head of the video streaming service. After serving as Google’s senior vice president of display and video ads for many years, Mohan joined YouTube in 2015 and has been one of Wojcicki’s primary lieutenants ever since. According to Wojcicki, Mohan played “pivotal roles” in the development of several YouTube products, including YouTube TV, YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts, and also led the company’s trust and safety team.
In the near term, Wojcicki will be supporting Mohan and assisting with the transition. Longer term, she’ll hold an “advisory role across Google and Alphabet,” she says. “This will allow me to call on my different experiences over the years to offer counsel and guidance across Google and the portfolio of Alphabet companies.”
Wojcicki’s history with Google actually predates her official employment at the company, as she rented out garage space to founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998. She officially started at Google in 1999 when Brin and Page began building the search engine and eventually helped encourage the company to buy YouTube in 2006. She became the CEO of YouTube in 2014.
“Susan has a unique place in Google history and has made the most incredible contribution to products used by people everywhere,” Page and Brin said in a statement obtained by Recode. “We’re so grateful for all she’s done over the last 25 years.”
As head of YouTube, Wojcicki frequently addressed YouTube creators and responded to their concerns about the platform. In a separate note shared to the YouTube Creators blog, she spoke again to creators directly. “It was a constant highlight of my job to sit down with you, hear how you were using the platform, and listen to feedback,” she said. “Sometimes what you said was tough and candid, but it was important for me and the wider YouTube team to listen and do better.”
source:www.theverge.com
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