Senior Product Manager, Google Compute Engine

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.

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 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.

You will create unique and differentiated experiences for Google Cloud Customers. This is an incredible opportunity to simplify how customers get the most value out of Google Cloud and unlock powerful new customer use cases.

The Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE) enables users to run their business-critical workloads with confidence, performance and great resilience. This work combines technical leadership on topics including user experience, reliability, security, compliance, API evolution and management. We contribute to Google’s efforts to deliver trust-worthy and delightful infrastructure to individuals, companies and governments around the world. Our users are large external IaaS buyers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and SaaS-providers, and first-party Google Cloud services including CloudSQL, DataFlow and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Operations and Vertex.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Requirements Document (PRDs) by collaborating with partner teams (e.g., Engineers, PgMs, UX) during product design and development to implement the requirements to turn PRDs into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for multiple teams.
• Consult across other core IaaS/PaaS services and Application Ecosystem and AI teams to work seamlessly and plug into other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) frameworks.
• Develop intelligent experiences that help customers achieve their workload intent and areas to improve.
• Lead processes to define, identify, collect, and track appropriate product or business metrics, both quantitative and qualitative for new or existing products or business ventures.
• Work with large-scale users of Compute Engine to understand unmet needs.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
• Experience creating cloud platform APIs.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a business function or role (e.g., strategic marketing, business operations, consulting).
• 5 years of experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, finance and other stakeholders.
• 3 years of experience in software development or engineering.
• 3 years of people management experience with direct reports, and in technical leadership.
• Knowledge of operations culture whether Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Operations, or Platform Engineering.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)