Product area

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Job description

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.

Additional job description

In this role, you will be a key individual contributor responsible for driving initiatives that discover, classify, and protect Google’s most sensitive internal information. Working closely with the established Product Management Lead for this space, you will bridge the gap between complex security requirements and high-velocity engineering execution. You will serve as the advocate for the customer (Googlers and leads of organizations within Google like YouTube, Workspace, and more). You will be tasked with enabling and accelerating risk reduction by performing deep customer research to understand internal workflows. This insight will directly inform your GTM strategy, ensuring that security controls and policies "lands" effectively, with high adoption and minimal disruption to Google’s velocity.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Conduct deep-dive user research, interviews, and surveys with internal teams (Engineering, Sales, Finance, etc.) to understand their data workflows and pain points.
• Use customer insights to design and execute GTM plans for new security controls. Ensure that "landings" are informed by user reality, reducing friction and preventing "security fatigue."
• Identify and drive product workstreams that measurably reduce data security risks across Google’s internal infrastructure.
• Own the end-to-end adoption lifecycle of security policies. Translate technical mandates into clear, empathetic communications and low-friction user experiences.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management Lead for enterprise data protection to align your workstreams with the broader security goal and multi-year roadmap.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in product management, with a focus on enterprise security, data privacy, or internal infrastructure.
• 2 years of experience conducting user research or customer discovery, and guiding product roadmaps and Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
  
• 3 years of experience in a business function or role (e.g., strategic marketing, business operations, consulting).
  
• Experience implementing complex technical changes or policies across large organizations through effective change management.
• Ability to use qualitative research and quantitative telemetry to advocate for the user and influence security engineering priorities.
• Ability to build security products, by applying UX principles to technical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of data classification, encryption, and zero trust/BeyondCorp access models.