Director, Product, Gemini App Product Foundation, DeepMind

About the Job

As the Director, you will lead the strategy and roadmap for ensuring a fast, performant, reliable, and well architected infrastructure for the Gemini App. As a Director and a senior product management leader of this space, you will lead decision-making, drive clarity with your communication, and inspire a wide range of engineering and product teams teams. You will be responsible for outlining and supporting the release process responsible for safely and quickly shipping Gemini App across Web, iOS, and Android.

To make Gemini App an amazing AI assistant, we will build and maintain modern codebases, ensure exceptional app quality and performance, and achieve industry-leading release speed and stability. You will own these responsibilities in collaboration with the best product and engineering leaders. You will build and lead a global team of excellent engineers.

Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority.

Responsibilities

• Be an advocate for Product Infrastructure in executive rooms, C-suite reviews, and Google-wide forums and industry forums. 
• Drive alignment across distinct product pillars, managing trade-offs and resource allocation to maximize impact.
• Ensure Gemini App speed, performance, latency, reliability, and quality roadmaps are impacting adoption and engagement at the app level.
• Partner with engineering to to embrace agentic development and ensure Gemini’s engineering organization is shipping at the speed of innovation. Establish the processes and frameworks necessary for a large organization to innovate quickly while maintaining the highest standards for safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency.
  
• Partner with engineering leadership to deliver platforms that enable improved collaboration across the Gemini App and Google ecosystems.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in product management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience partnering with engineering organizations in a high-growth, fast-paced environment. Experience leading technical product roadmaps within mobile or app platform ecosystems.
• Experience bridging infrastructure teams with unique product areas to move from development to reliable production.
• Understanding of how the levers for a performant and reliable product can be most impactfully pulled to drive growth and adoption.
• Ability to build collaborative and high-accountability team cultures that attract talent.