Senior Product Manager, Network Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 10 years of experience in network product management, cloud architecture, or related roles.
• 8 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
  
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
  
• Experience with Networking, Network Architecture, Networking Protocols, Software Architecture along with experience in enterprise and service provider networking, security, 5G packet core.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or a business related field.
• Technical Certification e.g., Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, CCIE, VCDX, etc.
• 4 years of experience in a role preparing and delivering technical presentations to senior leadership.
  
• 3 years of experience in software development or engineering.
  
• Experience in Product management, customer engineering, solutions engineering or technical marketing experience in cloud networking, security, Kubernetes, infrastructure and application modernization, CDNs, observability.
• Experience in network security as a vendor or operator of global networks.

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.

As a Network Solutions Group Product Manager for Google Cloud, you will play a vital role as the technical/domain expert across enterprise, service provider networks who owns the solution definition and architecture, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) by collaborating with partner teams (e.g., Engineers, Program Manager (PgM), UX) during product design and development to implement the requirements to turn PRDs into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for multiple teams.
• Own and define project roadmaps.
• Deliver development and secure buy-in for a product outlook that identifies, defines, and supports the overall product narrative and direction, achieving an outcome that is greater than the sum of its parts.
• Manage validation of market size and opportunity (e.g., user-based, strategic opportunity, business growth).
• Lead and harmonize processes to define, identify, collect, and track appropriate product or business metrics, both quantitative and qualitative for new or existing products or businesses.