Senior Product Manager, Google Distributed Cloud, Storage

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.
  
• Experience in Cloud storage and the overall public cloud ecosystem including customer requirements, market trends, competitive positioning.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA degree.
• Experience in hybrid product development, spanning on-premises to the public cloud.
  
• Experience across multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, customer enablement, product marketing.
  
• Experience in enterprise storage technologies.
  
• Knowledge of AI training and inferencing workloads.
  

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.

Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) enables Google Cloud customers to innovate faster with Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the edge and run modern applications in an open and consistent environment, while allowing them to meet data residency and operational sovereignty needs and scaling anywhere with cloud-native agility. Google’s 1P Storage services are a critical part of GDC product portfolio to help customers realize the promise of GDC, in being able to meet the performance, durability, availability, and scalability requirements of the customer workloads hosted on GDC zones.

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

• Lead Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) by collaborating with partner teams (e.g.,engineers, PgMs, UX) during product design and development to implement the requirements to turn PRDs into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for multiple teams.
  
• Identify GDC customer pain points and propose solutions to meet the workload needs.
  
• Work closely on a day to day basis with Engineering, bringing technical and customer credibility in establishing a synergistic partnership throughout the entire product life-cycle.
  
• Drive the right external hardware and software partnerships required to launch successful GDC storage products.
  
• Create the right collateral with prescriptive guidance for Google Cloud go-to-market teams to successfully position and promote the products with solution partners and end customers.