Product Manager Ii, Core Surfaces, Personalization

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**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
- 2 years of experience in taking technical products from conception to launch.
- Experience in building consumer-facing products.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- 8 years of experience in product management, launching and scaling consumer-facing products.
- Experience with photo and video products or services.
- Experience with working cross-functionally with engineering, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), and other stakeholders on landing consumer-facing products.
- Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies.
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and investigative skills, with the ability to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (e.g., writing Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and strategy documents, building and delivering presentations to leadership).

**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.

In this role, you will be responsible for the Personalization strategy of the product's Core Surfaces including Photos grid and the Photo View. You will lead a team of engineers, designers, researchers, and partners with cross-functional teams to define how people interact with their memories.

**Responsibilities**:

- Own the product strategy and roadmap for the personalization of Core Surfaces, focused on increasing the feature discoverability for multiple user segments.
- Understand user needs and behaviors through user research, data analysis, and market trends.
- Identify and prioritize opportunities to personalize the experience, increase engagement, and drive growth and work to address existing value gaps.
- Define and launch new features and improvements to Core Surfaces, from ideation to execution and launch.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, research, marketing, and legal to bring the outlook to reality. Monitor and analyze metrics to track the performance of Core Surfaces and identify areas for optimization.

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