Business Product Lead, High Performance Culture

Google Google · Big Tech · New York, NY +3

This role is a Business Product Lead focused on delivering talent and career solutions for Google employees, managers, and leaders, particularly in the context of the AI era. The role involves defining product strategy, building and evolving AI prototypes into scalable solutions, managing the product lifecycle, and influencing executive leadership. While the role deals with AI-powered products and attracting AI talent, its core function is product management and strategy within HR and talent operations, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the business product goal, success metrics, and strategy for AI-powered and non-tech High-Performance Computing (HPC) products across multiple user roles.
  2. Deliver key strategic artifacts Business Requirements Document (BRDs) by leveraging continuous discovery and human-centered design to translate problems into intuitive user journeys.
  3. Build, test, and evolve high-potential AI prototypes into scalable, enterprise-grade solutions tailored for a global, cross-functional workforce.
  4. Oversee products from ideation through implementation, managing stage-gate requirements, ensuring launch readiness, and driving rapid strategy pivots based on user data.
  5. Cultivate strong ecosystem partnerships (Product Management (PM), User Experience (UX) and Engineering (Eng) while serving as a trusted advisor to influence executive leadership on critical design and investment decisions.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in Product Strategy, Product Management, Business Administration, HR Strategy, Talent Management, or Management consulting with working across HR and Product teams on programs.
  • Experience building Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools for employees or consumers, with experience in applying AI to product development.
  • Experience in managing and developing end-to-end products from ideation to implementation, tracking and reporting out on success metrics, and driving improvement.
  • Experience with product lifecycle and product development best practices, and with translating user insights into product requirements or digital solutions.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience working with critical user journeys with a focus on identifying, addressing, and enabling the unique needs of different user personas (e.g., leaders, new managers, experienced managers, Googlers, frontline HR).
  • Familiar with People Operations (POps) product life-cycle and driving results from pilot stage to scaled execution.
  • Technical acumen with experience working with engineering or operations teams.
  • Deep understanding of key performance trends, internally and externally.
  • Adept at pivoting strategies and requirements based on user insights and rapidly evolving technical capabilities.
  • Ability to influence as part of cross-functional teams, manage competing priorities, and influencing design and product decisions.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-powered tools for employees or consumers
  • applying AI to product development
  • managing and developing end-to-end products from ideation to implementation
  • product lifecycle and product development best practices