Product Manager, Home Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience product managing infrastructure software, data infrastructure, analytics, and logging.
• Experience managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to engage with engineers on product roadmap and systems design.
• Ability to work and collaborate across functions and organizations.
• Excellent communication skills.
  
  

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.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Define and ship consolidated logging system that works across multiple product lines, identify requirements and use cases, system characteristics, and set metrics.
• Define and ship analytics backends that process data and turn it into insights, identify key user populations and requirements, drive cross-organisational alignment on roadmap, set key product metrics.
• Identify and drive opportunities to build and leverage data infrastructure to support and accelerate investments in AI-powered features in Home.
• Understand and represent the needs and priorities of users of these systems. Identify consolidation opportunities and drive product roadmaps to take advantage of those opportunities.
• Communicate product roadmaps to user community, define and drive user engagement strategies to validate the roadmap and deliver value.
  
  
  

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