Susan Wojcicki, Google's long-time senior advertising executive, is replacing Salar Kamangar as YouTube's new senior vice president.
Google CEO Larry Page confirmed the change in job profiles within the organization's YouTube division.
Susan Wojcicki, who has been a senior vice president for advertising and commerce, is replacing Salar Kamangar to take his position as the new SVP of YouTube. The latest move comes in light of Page's attempt to monetize its popular video portal.
Page said that Kamangar and Wojcicki share similarity with their disregard for the impossible, in turn helping YouTube grow even bigger in the days to come. As for the rest of the shuffle, replacing Wojcicki to lead the advertising and commerce division will be Sridhar Ramaswamy, also a senior vice president for advertising and commerce. And Kamangar will be starting his own "early-stage projects" for the web giant, like former Android head Andy Rubin, who currently leads a project focused on robotics.
"Salar and the whole YouTube team have built something amazing," Google CEO Larry Page said in an emailed statement to Re/Code. "YouTube is a billion person global community curating videos for every possibility. Anyone uploading their creative content can reach the whole world and even make money. Like Salar, Susan has a healthy disregard for the impossible and is excited about improving YouTube in ways that people will love."
Wojcicki and the other two executives have been with the organization for more than a decade. Wojcicki's history with Google dates back to initial days when Page and co-founder Sergey Brin started the company in her garage in Menlo Park, California in September 1998. She was the sixteenth employee working for Google and Kamangar was ninth, whereas Ramaswamy joined later in 2003 as a software engineer.
