YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki said she is stepping down from her role after nine years.
In a YouTube blog post, the 54-year-old executive said she has taken the decision to step away after nearly 25 years at YouTube and Google's parent company, Alphabet, to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects.”
Wojcicki will be replaced by Neal Mohan, who first came over to Google following the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007, stepping up from his current role as chief product officer, which he has held since 2015.
According to the blog post, Wojcicki plans to stay “in the short term” to support the transition.
Part of this will involve her continued work with some YouTube Teams, coaching team members and meeting with creators.
Longer term, she will take on an advisory role across Google and Alphabet.
Wojcicki became involved with Google when the founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, set up shop in the garage of her home in Silicon Valley in 1998, and is credited as being one of Google's first employees.
Her tenure has been littered with criticisms over the platform’s content moderation policies, arguing the video streaming service didn’t do enough to stop the spread of misinformation or protect children.