Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
  
• 10 years of experience in Strategy and in Product Management.
• Experience leading cross-functional operational and strategic initiatives.
• Ability to synthesize data into useful formats and bring actionable insights.
• Ability to manage executive stakeholders and communicate with a highly technical management team.
  
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment.

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.

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) is a portfolio of hardware and software solutions that extends Google Cloud infrastructure and services to the edge and into data centers. It is designed to address challenges such as regulatory compliance, network survivability, local data processing, and low latency.

Responsibilities

• Develop market and strategic analysis, working with leadership and product management team (e.g., market sizing, buy/build/partner assessment, competitive strategy/game theory).
• Develop commercial models, pricing/packaging strategies, business case, and financial models/projections.
• Work with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, partner teams and more) to drive product-specific GTM strategies: strategic partnerships, channel strategy and incentives, customer engineering /solutions architect community/feedback.
• Develop mid- and long-term strategies, build new products and potential measurements and attribution (M&A) business cases.
• Provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on strategic insights, analysis, experience, technical acumen, and good judgment.