Senior Product Manager, Virtual Machine Families, Workload Specialized

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
  
• Experience in one or more of the following: compute architecture, data center infrastructure, CPU (x86/Arm) and I/O technologies, Cloud Infrastructure, or Storage.
  
• Experience with computing applications (e.g., CAE, CAD, EDA, Genomics, etc.) and infrastructure needs.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
  
• 5 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales finance, and other stakeholders.
  
• 5 years of experience in a business function or role (e.g., strategic marketing, business operations, consulting).
  
• 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to senior leadership.
  
• 3 years of experience in software development or engineering.
  
• 3 years of people management experience with direct reports, and in technical leadership.
  

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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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 new Virtual Machine (VM) instances types in Compute Engine including intercepting new technologies, roadmap planning, business forecasting, ecosystem, and customer adoption.
  
• Be responsible for the product strategy for your VM instance types, their associated business outcomes including presenting to key Google Cloud Platform (GCP) leadership.
  
• Work across hardware, software, supply chain, operations, research and other product teams towards long-term product goals.
  
• Understand the competitive dynamics, industry trends and application ecosystems on where the innovation is happening for both workloads and hardware.
  
• Drive new capabilities in the foundational Compute Infrastructure layer (Hypervisor and Virtualization Stack), data center systems and deliver innovation for Google Cloud.