Steve leads Google’s efforts to grow the Google+ community through partnerships with influential organizations, media companies, brands, and public figures. Before coming to Google+, Steve built the news and politics division of YouTube. Starting in 2008, he developed YouTube's political platform, which brought presidential and congressional candidates to YouTube; he then launched the award-winning CNN/YouTube Debates, the first-ever web-to-TV political debates in which candidates answered questions submitted on YouTube. He created partnerships with news organizations, developing products like YouTube Direct (youtube.com/direct) that allow news organizations to access YouTube's vast market of citizen-generated news clips, and he built CitizenTube, a channel on YouTube that curates and promotes citizen-generated news clips from breaking news events like the Arab Spring. Grove also started YouTube's nonprofit program, which allows charity organizations to harness YouTube for their causes, and he brought the U.S. government to YouTube.

In February 2010, Grove launched the first-ever social media interview with President Obama, posing user-submitted questions to the President - a format YouTube repeated in 2011, and has since scaled to world leaders globally. In February of 2012, Grove expanded this format to a Google+ Hangout interview with the President, which he moderated with 6 U.S. citizens who joined for a first-of-its kind virtual town hall viewed by millions.

Originally from Northfield, Minnesota, Grove worked at The Boston Globe and ABC News prior to joining YouTube. He received a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2006. In December 2007, Newsweek named Grove one of its "12 people to watch", and in June 2009, Campaigns & Elections magazine listed him as one of the "Rising Stars of 2009". Steve serves on the Advisory Board of Witness, a video human rights organization.