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.
AlloyDB is part of the Google Cloud Database area and focuses on Relational Databases (RDBMS) space a business opportunity and growth accelerator for other Google Cloud products. AlloyDB is a new enterprise grade, cloud native transactional database for high availability and performance. AlloyDB, combines the familiarity of open source PostgreSQL front-end, with custom-built storage and query engines for excellent availability, performance, security and manageability.
In this role, you will contribute to both the database control plane and the database kernel, and additionally focus on integration with extended functionalities in the Google Cloud ecosystem, developer tooling and database clients. You will also focus on open source contributions from the project.
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.
Responsibilities
- Drive database and Artificial Intelligence (AI) product strategy and roadmap for the AlloyDB for PostgreSQL portfolio, including wider Google databases level alignment.
- Engage with customers and partners to understand their needs and build platform features to enable use cases.
- Partner with engineering, research and key stakeholder teams to align roadmap and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) across Google Cloud.
- Work with quantitative research to implement a data-driven framework to define key business metrics that help the team understand and improve the developer experience.
- Communicate product strategy to executive leaders, engineering and cross-functional teams, and influence to gain consensus and required resources to deliver.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
- 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
- Experience developing or launching products or technologies within databases, analytics, big data, or a related area.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in cloud, developer tools, database management, and building AI capabilities in data management solutions.
- Experience with relational databases and building cloud database services.
- Experience creating product roadmaps from conception to launch, driving the product goal, defining the Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, and leading design discussions.