Product Manager, Play Developer Content

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with product management in a B2B context.
• Experience presenting to leadership and external partners, building and shipping technical products, and managing the full product life-cycle from concept to launch.
• Experience working with engineering, UX, and cross-functional go-to-market teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders, strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to articulate complex concepts to audiences and varying levels of seniority.
• Experience owning a product end to end: definition, building, taking to market and landing, with high responsiveness and proactivity throughout.
• Experience with incorporating accessibility into product development methodologies.
• Experience building and owning genAI features.
• Understanding of developers, productivity tools, and mobile app ecosystems.

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 Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver against a multi-year content roadmap that aligns to Play priorities and developer needs.
• Own product requirements and evaluation, and drive impact by leading all parts of product development in collaboration with Eng & UX counterparts, as well as broader stakeholders; this includes prototyping and exploring new capabilities powered by genAI.
• Engage with partnerships, developers and other stakeholders to understand needs and refine roadmap, influence other roadmaps where needed, and to steer the smooth launch and landing of new launches, particularly for top developers.
• Develop PRDs, decks and other artifacts to define and communicate new features, and ensure smooth landing.
• Provide timely input to cross-functional team and secure necessary approvals from privacy, legal, vertical stakeholders etc to ensure efficient execution and deliver launches on time.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.