Product Support Manager, Google Retail Operations

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +3

This Product Support Manager role at Google Retail Operations focuses on transforming traditional support models by integrating next-generation AI to revolutionize self-service and enhance user experience. The role involves leading continuous improvement workstreams, partnering with Legal and Engineering to define support strategies, and driving data-backed improvements to reduce churn. Key responsibilities include leading retail store openings, ensuring product launch readiness, overseeing critical workstreams, and liaising between stakeholders to refine customer support experiences. The role also emphasizes driving advanced AI into global support center and retail workflows for automation and resource optimization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead execution of domestic and international retail store openings, prioritizing complex new market entries.
  2. Collaborate with retail teams to ensure product launch readiness, managing training deployment, troubleshooting, and escalation frameworks.
  3. Oversee critical workstreams like Policy and Content Localization, Systems and Telephony Infrastructure, and deploying new support capabilities.
  4. Liaison between Engineering, Retail, and Product Area stakeholders to harmonize hardware/software troubleshooting and refine customer support experiences.
  5. Drive advanced AI into Global Support Center and retail workflows to automate routine support and optimize resource allocation.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in a project management or a customer-facing role.

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
  • Deep experience with international product launches, retail infrastructure, or telecommunications operations.
  • Proven track record of leading complex, high-stakes operational projects from conception through to successful global deployment.
  • Ability to navigate high stakeholder complexity, building consensus across functional groups such as Engineering, Legal, and Marketing.

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience leveraging AI, machine learning, or automation to transform customer support environments or operational workflows.