The team at Google just did something even cooler than giving their staff bean bags and free bagels...

You probably visit YouTube all the time. Where else would you get all your cat videos, news bloopers, and footage of babies eating lemons for the first time? But you might not have given much thought to the people who run the site.

YouTube is owned by Google, of course. Which means that on the corporate side, it’s run by a lot of men sitting on bean bags. That is, until today, when YouTube scored its new female leader.

A corporate computing genius named Susan Wojcicki has just been appointed CEO of YouTube. She replaces Salar Kamangar.

This is stunning news, considering the technology industry is one of the single hardest places for a woman to work in the world. So, if you’ve been not the lookout for a new role model, Susan Wojcicki’s your lady.

In a statement, Google CEO Larry Page said this: “… Susan has a healthy disregard for the impossible and is excited about improving YouTube in ways that people will love.” Apart from that, we have very clues as to what the new CEO has planned for YouTube.

So let’s get better acquainted with this swashbuckling tech icon.

Before this huge appointment, Wojcicki was the senior vice president of ads and commerce at Google. She graduated with honours in history and literature from Harvard University in 1990, she has a masters in economics from the University of California in 1993, and a masters in business administration from UCLA in 1998.

She’s 45 years old, married to a Google executive called Dennis Trooper – and the power couple have four children.

The coolest fact about Susan? When two guys called Larry Page and Sergey Brin needed a place to work in the ’90s, she lent them her garage as a makeshift office. And that’s where they founded a little thing called Google.

She became Google’s 16th employee and continued to work out of that garage before it became a global tech giant.

Since then she’s pretty much been collecting accolades and kicking career goals. She’s currently #30 on Forbes Most Powerful Women list, down from #25 in 2012 (and she’ll zoom right up that list with this new CEO gig). She’s been called “the most important Googler you’ve never heard of” and “the most important person in advertising” for her work establishing Google’s ad products, AdSense and AdWords and Analytics.

She’s a major asset on the Google team already, with reports saying she’s responsible for 87% of the company’s income in 2012. That’s a cool $43,5 billion, by the way.

The most important thing to remember about this news? Susan Wojcicki is not just kicking her own career goals here. She’s changing the game for any other woman who might want to do the same. Just like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer before her.

And for that, Susan, we owe you a beer next time you’re in town.