Principal Product Manager, Consumer Shopping Personalization at Google in Mountain View, CA, USA

Job description

• Google Ads and Commerce operates at the center of the global commercial journey. Every day, users engage with Google properties—including Search, AI Mode, Gemini, gPay, YouTube, Maps, Discover, and Ads—spanning the full funnel from inspiration to purchase. The Consumer Shopping organization is foundational to this ecosystem.
• Every day, billions of consumers turn to Google for help with their shopping needs. The Consumer Shopping team is responsible for building the platforms and experiences that serve these users and ecosystems. The mission for Google Consumer Shopping is to “make Google the most trusted place for people to discover, understand and decide what to buy”. We build shopping experiences across Google products - on Search, AI Mode, Gemini, Google Discover, Gmail, etc. towards the mission.
• It’s a pivotal time for Google Commerce and the industry as a whole. Commerce is going through unprecedented AI-driven changes, shopper’s expectations are shifting, and there is an unbounded opportunity to innovate and enable shoppers to browse, decide and transact in new and multimodal ways.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute Shopping strategy in collaboration with other senior leaders across the company, identifying key growth opportunities, driving innovation, and providing leadership in identifying and pursuing new partnerships to expand the business.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and emerging trends in retail, including the latest technologies, consumer behavior, and modernizing the architecture through ML and LLMs.
• Collaborate with other teams across Google, including product, engineering, marketing, legal, and finance, to ensure alignment and integration with the overall business objectives.
• Inspire engineering teams to innovate, invent, implement, and deploy complex software solutions, while representing Google internally and externally to press, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and grow leadership talent through effective mentoring, coaching, succession planning, and retention strategies for key talent in a fast-growth, highly competitive economic environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of software-based technical product management experience.
• 5 years of experience managing and leading teams of product managers.
• Experience building consumer products in e-commerce, personalization products, and building AI-first product experiences at scale.
• Experience driving strategy, providing detailed technical guidance to the team, and demonstrated thought leadership around setting an ambitious product outlook.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management and experience communicating with C-level executives.
• Leadership experience in hiring and developing product managers and coaching a high-performance team.
• Problem solving skills and technical abilities in areas related to platform infrastructure, data ecosystems, and organizational capabilities.
• Passion for technology and technical depth to uncover causes of complex technical problems and provide guidance on solving them.

Skills

Required

• Team leadership
• Product management

Preferred

• Consumer products in e-commerce
• Personalization products
• AI-first product experiences
• Strategy development
• Technical guidance
• Thought leadership
• Cross-functional stakeholder management
• Communication with C-level executives

Benefits

• Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
• US: $281000 - $391000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Learn more about benefits at Google.