Erin Teague is chief product officer at Character.AI. Prior to that position, she was a senior director of product management at Google, where she served as the product and technical advisor across Google鈥檚 Search, Ads, Maps, Assistant, Commerce, Shopping and Long-term Bets product areas. Before that role, she was the global product lead across several YouTube verticals including Sports, Film, and TV. She led YouTube鈥檚 Virtual and Augmented Reality product team, where she was responsible for immersive video and created the YouTube VR app, which is rated #1 across multiple platforms. She also founded and led YouTube鈥檚 Racial Justice, Equity, and Product Inclusion product teams.
Before YouTube, Teague was the director of product for Yahoo鈥檚 Fantasy Sports and product manager at Twitter. She began her career as a software engineer at Morgan Stanley, where she designed algorithms embedded in electronic trading applications in the firm鈥檚 Algorithmic Trading Technology group.
Teague is the recipient of the BET Her Tech Maven Award and has been recognized as one of the 鈥�100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley鈥� by Silicon Valley Business Journal, 鈥淭he Next Generation of Tech Stars鈥� by Refinery29, 鈥�40 Under 40 in Silicon Valley."聽 She has also been named one of Glamour Magazine鈥檚 鈥�35 Women Under 35 Who Are Changing the Tech Industry鈥� and one of Business Insider's "Silicon Valley 100."
Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Teague holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Morgan Stanley Fellow, and a BSE in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, where she graduated with distinction as an Intel Scholar.