Product Manager, Audiences and Brand Safety, Ads

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 3 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
  
• 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc).
• Experience with the digital advertising ecosystem, ad tech, or an adjacent industry.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• 1 year of experience in software development or engineering.
• Experience using data, A/B testing, and experimentation to drive product decisions.
• Experience with the operational side of Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as developing rating guidelines for content evaluations.
• Experience working with User Experience (UX) Design and UX Research teams.
• Proficiency in SQL.

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 Advertiser Platform (AP) team is responsible for developing and maintaining the tools and interfaces that advertisers use to manage their campaigns with Google. We ensure the platform meets evolving advertiser needs across relevant advertiser controls (e.g., targeting, bidding, and creatives), while fostering excellent partnerships with channel teams (e.g., YouTube Ads, Search Ads, Shopping Ads, Travel Ads, Display Ads, etc.) to ensure seamless integration and improvement across different advertising channels.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate launches, maintenance, and retirement in collaboration with other cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Serve as the advocate for advertiser needs across advertiser platform and quality teams for key verticals, ensuring that we deliver value to advertisers with a comprehensive product suite.
• Develop a product roadmap and strategy to creatively meet advertiser needs and capture incremental budgets within the Audiences and Brand Safety spaces, anchoring on what other competitors in the market do well, and where we as Google have opportunity to grow.
• Interface directly with customers and sales teams to gather feedback, solve customer issues in real-time, and ensure alignment between the product roadmap and their needs.
• Act as a lead for cross-functional teams across various roles and functions.