Director, Product Management, Databases, Spanner

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in product management leadership providing product vision and roadmaps, creating customer-facing products, leading packaging, positioning, messaging, and pricing, and driving go-to-market execution.
• Experience in the enterprise market segment and addressing business needs with AI-driven solutions.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with enterprise databases, including relational and non-relational databases, large-scale distributed data systems, and infrastructure.
• Experience with strategic thought leadership and the ability to drive business excellence and operational/product aptitude while simplifying existing go-to-market models.
• Experience as an organizational leader with the ability to identify priorities and deliver successfully within accelerated timelines, with strong communication skills.
• Knowledge of application development, analytics, and AI/ML in relation to operational databases.
• Strong technical skills and the ability to code at a prototyping or experimental level.

About the job

The Cloud Databases team develops database offerings that provide industry-leading data-management capabilities. Spanner is an always-on database with virtually unlimited scale and strong consistency guarantees. It unifies relational, graph, key-value, and search capabilities and supports high-scale, business-critical workloads.

The team's mission is to enable businesses to deliver scalable, secure, performant, and reliable solutions without the overhead of managing large-scale distributed databases. As Director of Product Management for Spanner, you will scale the Product Management organization and its leadership team to support a fast-growing databases business. You will establish customer-centric product strategy, build thought leadership in the market segment, and drive go-to-market strategy and execution across proprietary and open-source technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategic outlook and collaborate with customers, partners, field teams, and engineering to offer a coherent roadmap for internal and external customers.
• Work across product, engineering, and services teams to define, build, and support database products across a portfolio of offerings.
• Drive decisions on prioritization, solutions, functionality, and pricing.
• Build and drive a thought-leadership narrative with customers and industry thought leaders around databases and their role in the broader data landscape.
• Define database product go-to-market strategies, identify market and competitive trends and customer opportunities, and plan and manage programs to execute those strategies in partnership with regional and global sales leadership.
• Drive go-to-market strategy across industry-focused areas and customer segments.