Senior Product Manager, Google Global Networking

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.

As a Product manager in the Google Global Networking (GGN) team, you will define strategy, product roadmaps and drive execution alignment for GGN. You will bring customer and product-centric focus to GGN teams by collaborating with various teams involved in planning, building, delivering, operating and supporting GGN products to our customers and partners.

This role is a data driven operation and requires user experience focus to define, measure and report on various product metrics. You will understand the networking technologies and networking market landscape.

You will drive the execution of GGN products through the entire product lifecycle and take ownership at every step, prioritizing the highest impact activities, driving intra and cross-functional communication and ultimately ensuring timely delivery of GGN products to our customers.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Build the direction and strategy for GGN's global backbone network.
• Represent GGN and collaborate with partner teams to build cross-functional alignment and roadmaps supporting business needs of GGN and our customers.
• Define the roadmap and features supporting security and sovereignty needs of Cloud customers.
• Drive customer empathy and product-centric thinking, aim for the best user experience.
• Increase awareness, training, education, of GGN products to enable Google businesses to offer excellent services using the infrastructure.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of product management experience with technical products.
• 2 years of experience in product management, with a track record of taking technical products from conception to launch (0 to 1).
• Experience in Enterprise Networking, including network planning, network design, data center design, and global network deployments.
• Experience in tooling and software systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in running large-scale operations and knowledge of financial models and can make build, buy, and partner decisions.
• Experience in product management, software and hardware engineering, distributed systems, network design, operations, deployment, content distribution network, and computer sciences.
• Understanding of network technologies and architectures, Cloud interconnect ecosystem, bandwidth management, routing protocols and software defined networking.