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 working with designers, product managers, and engineers.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience working on merchant facing tools.
Experience working on commerce or marketplace products.
Experience partnering with industry ecosystems and managing integrations with third-parties.
Excellent product and strategy skills.
About the jobAt 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 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.
As a part of the Local Inventory team in the Merchant Shopping organisation within Commerce, your mission is to know what products are available in every store in the world with the goal of helping shoppers find products close to where they are and give local retailers a way to stand out and build an online presence.
You will be motivated, inspirational, data-driven and execution-oriented product manager who will work with our engineering, design, partnerships, and other cross functional teams, and drive the goal and execution for bringing hundreds of thousands of retailers online.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
Collaborate with partner teams (e.g., Engineers, Program Manager, UX) to support Product Requirements Document (PRDs) during product design and development to implement the requirements.
Define product roadmaps by operationalizing defined strategy.
Communicate defined product goals in a way that captures attention and compels others to drive action despite obstacles and priorities.
Partner side by side with Google's local shopping consumer and local inventory ads teams.
Co-ordinate with other Google product teams to ensure a unified experience for our retailers and product excellence and execution quality in every new product feature launch.
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