Senior Solutions Product Manager, Networking, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
  
• 8 years of experience in network and security product management, cloud architecture, solutions architecture or related roles.
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
  
• Experience in data center, campus, branch network design.
  
• Experience in mobile architecture from RAN to packet core, end-to-end 5G architecture.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 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., marketing, business operations, consulting).
  
• 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive 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.

In the Cloud Networking team, we work with state-of-the-art networking technologies to innovate planet-scale networking with secure, reliable and efficient services, to enable customers and partners to achieve new opportunities with cloud services. We are building networking and security solutions for Google Cloud customers to help them simplify and accelerate their journey to the cloud by meeting them where they are e.g. migrating workloads, building a modern cloud native application stack, consuming and gathering insights from data, running AI/ML workloads, designing security for applications, data and users.

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

• Advise customers to build and maintain strong customer relationships. Gather customer insights and feedback.
  
• Define solution requirements based on customer discussions and business needs.
  
• Conduct design workshops, and author solution design guides, reference architectures and blueprints.
  
• Support and partner with the larger field technical community.
  
• Provide training to the sales team, partners and customers on best practices on network designs.