• Hi!
    I'm Helen.

    I'm a Product Manager at YouTube, working on AI video creation and eding tools for YouTube Shorts.

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  • PM &
    Media

    I love to work at the intersection of PM & Media. I care deeply about video creation and storytelling: I have a YouTube channel (17k subscribers, most viewed video 700k views :) and am a film/TV lover. I care about uplifting Asian and Asian-American perspectives.

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Who Am I?

About Me

I am currently working at Youtube and having previously been a PM on Google Search, Google Pixel and a SWE intern at Google and Amazon. I'm also incredibly passionate about TV & entertainment. In the past, I’ve worked on international unscripted formats with SBS, one of South Korea’s largest broadcasting stations. I’ve also worked in film and TV development at Janet Yang Productions, a production company focused on amplifying AAPI voices.

Feel free to email me or reach me via LinkedIn.

Product Management

Software Engineering

Media & Entertainment

Leadership

Work Experience

Tech Experience

Product Manager – YouTube Shorts GenAI Creation May 2025 – present

  • Lead end-to-end product definition and launch innovative GenAI video creation tools: Add Motion (Good Morning America at 2:12), Veo 3 text-to-video generation (WSJ feature), Veo 3.1 Reference-to-video generation, Avatar generation & more
  • Established model evaluation frameworks and quality benchmarks for video generation models to meet user expectations
  • Partner with Google Deepmind to sim-ship new video models on YouTube and influence GDM to prioritize Shorts use cases.
  • Targeted high-friction creator pain points to build intuitive AI creation tools that democratize short-form video creation

Associate Product Manager 2 – Pixel Sensors July 2024 – May 2025

  • Established new team focused on contextual and predictive experiences powered by ambient sensors on the Pixel
  • Lead product definition and coordinate hardware & software development of AI capacitive touch button on 2027 Pixel release
  • Developed and kickstarted execution of 3 year roadmap of new hardware sensors and ambient sensor software features

Associate Product Manager 1 – Circle to Search (Google Lens) Aug 2023 – July 2024

  • Led design, development, and launch of Translate and Homework features. now with X million DAUs (Samsung keynote & I/O)
  • Coordinated high profile zero to one launch of Circle to Search in partnership with Samsung and Android
  • Led development of Image Annotations in LLM-generated responses to visual search queries in Google Lens

Associate Product Manager Intern @ YouTube June 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Aligned Eng/UX/PM stakeholders to launch new ad formats on Shorts that are more immersive, performant, and engaging
  • Unlocked $300M ARR revenue for Shorts by pushing an innovative format through Eng/UX reviews, enabling new ad demand
  • Synthesized user research, advertiser goals, and YouTube Shorts Ads OKRs to lay out guiding principles and a 1-year roadmap

Software Developer Engineer Intern @ Amazon Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

  • Built and deployed corrections portal for advertising managers to edit current brand classifications by the Orpheus Brand API
  • Coded APIs to merge brand classifications with existing corrections and add data to the DynamoDB Corrections database

STEP Intern @ Google May 2021 - Aug. 2021

  • Coded complete support for the 2022 ECMAScript public class fields feature for Google’s JavaScript Compiler
  • Executed parsing/printing, support in the checks and optimizations, and transpilation of public class fields

Co-founder @ Zesti (Dating App Startup) Jan. 2021 – Jan. 2022

  • Spearhead product design, lead user experience studies, and raised $1000+ funding for Zesti, a dating app launching Fall 2021
  • Secured 4+ business partnerships with local restaurants where users can redeem discounts after matching on the app

Software Engineer Intern @ Infosys May 2020 - Aug. 2020

  • Build backend Java utility and API service to merge keys to JSON files based on text modifications
  • Modify FuzzyWuzzy algorithm implementations in Python and Java for chatbot entity extraction

Course Assistant for CS50 @ Harvard University Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  • Lead instruction and review of Python, C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and SQL concepts
  • Host weekly code reviews, office hours, and tutorials for one of Harvard’s largest classes (700+ students)
Work Experience

Media + Entertainment Experience

Film + TV Development Intern @ Janet Yang Productions Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021

  • Provide in-depth coverage, notes, and creative feedback of incoming material of scripted and unscripted film and TV projects
  • Update internal lists, databases, and grids used by the creative team

Global Content Business Team Intern @ Seoul Broadcasting Station Feb. 2021 – June 2021

  • Devised pitching and marketing strategy for the selling of SBS’ Korean reality television show formats to the United States
  • Mapped out competitive landscape and generated contacts for SBS’ entry to the Korean pop concert industry in America
My Work

Portfolio

Zesti

Harvard-founded dating app launching Fall 2021. Join our waitlist!

Website

Captionr

Full stack picture captioning social media platform. Created for Harvard Student Agencies DEV Winter Bootcamp.

Github

Church Finder + AACF Database

Church finder for the Cambridge area and membership database for the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship.

Github

Harvard Social Connection Analysis

Social network analysis and data visualization for the social environment of Harvard's Class of 2023.

Github

Breeze

Tech and hardware startup @ University of Pennsylvania. Automated window attachment which opens and closes based on temperature and weather detection.

Space Battery Research

Completed 360-hour research project at the University of Kentucky. Searched for liquid electrolyte for space battery. Worked in conjunction with MIT.

Inverse Spotlight Feature

Spotlighted on Inverse's front page for my national girls in STEM advocacy.

KGSC Article Feature

Authored an article for the Kentucky Girls in STEM Collaborative arguing for youth representation in STEM advocacy initatives.

My Skills

Coding Languages & Frameworks

Java

React

Python

JavaScript

C

HTML/CSS

R

SQL

Stacks I have used

MERN Stack

JavaScript + MongoDB + Express + ReactJS + Node.js

Project: Church Finder

PRAN Stack

Postgres + React.js + Apollo (GraphQL) + Node.js

Project: Captionr

Get in Touch

Contact

hpang@college.harvard.edu
linkedin.com/in/helen-pang