About The Job
At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at Google speed.
One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative and prolific engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users.
Google's Core Machine Learning’s customers include internal product areas such as Ads, Search, YouTube, Geo, as well as researchers such as DeepMind and Brain, and Third Party Cloud users. You'll balance and prioritize across these vastly different user needs. You’ll be expected to navigate these organizations and build trusted relationships with our customers in order to inform prioritization and product roadmaps to support the end-to-end Machine Learning journey.
The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.
Responsibilities
- Understand the workflows of internal and external machine learning experts from many of the world’s research and product development teams.
- Partner with and influence the leading machine learning frameworks to create multiple paths to market. Influence cross-functional decisions involving multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
- Understand the user journey across our internal and external customers, mapping challenges, and opportunities.
- Work across hardware, software, research, and product teams towards product goals and roadmap.
- Work closely with all Google product areas like Ads, Search, Cloud, Maps and prioritize feature requests and build a unified roadmap for the best machine learning infrastructure for Google.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of product management experience with technical products.
- Experience with the product development lifecycle such as product vision, go-to-market strategy, driving requirements, and product launch.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a technical or business related field.
- Experience with influencing cross-functional decisions involving competing stakeholders.
- Experience working in an enterprise technology setting with SaaS expertise along with an understanding of the cloud market and competitive dynamics/customer adoption behavior.
- Experience in one or more of the following: machine learning, compilers, computer architecture, data center infrastructure, silicon.
- Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.