YouTube is an Alphabet juggernaut, raking in advertising dollars by the billions and currently tracking as Google's fastest-growing business. Steering that highly lucrative ship is CEO Susan Wojcicki, who oversees more than 5,700 employees and a community of users watching more than 1 billion hours of videos a day.
But Wojcicki's squadron of top executives is relatively lean.
It's an elite cadre known internally as "RNSS," a play on the names of its members: Robert Kyncl, the chief business officer; Neil Mohan, the chief product officer; Scott Silver, the vice president of engineering; and Wojcicki herself.
Insider has obtained internal company org charts that lay out the structure of the people who roll up to RNSS, revealing dozens of the most powerful people within YouTube's walls. Including Wojcicki, the 49 named executives have grown YouTube into a video empire — while helping shield it from much of the bruising public scrutiny and backlash that rivals like Facebook and Twitter have wrestled with.
The org chart also contains executives' "dotted-line" reports — where a manager has some amount of oversight over the employee but is not directly responsible for them. Some administrative assistants are also not included in the chart.
One interesting aspect of this chosen structure is that Matt Halprin, YouTube's head of trust and safety, reports into Mohan rather than Wojcicki directly. However, Halprin does have an important seat on Roomba, an internal council that makes calls on major policy decisions on the platform.
For more on the inner workings of YouTube, read Insider's new investigation into how Susan Wojcicki built it into a $1 trillion juggernaut and the reckoning that may be coming for it »
