Google

Director, Product Management, Databases, Spanner

Google$281K — $392K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
  • 15 years of experience in product management leadership, focusing on product vision and roadmaps.
  • Experience in the enterprise market segment, especially AI-driven solutions.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred.
  • Experience with enterprise databases and large-scale distributed data systems.
  • Strong organizational leadership capabilities and effective communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic outlook and collaborate with stakeholders to create a coherent product roadmap.
  • Work across teams to define and support database products, prioritizing solutions and pricing.
  • Establish a thought leadership narrative around databases and data management.
  • Define go-to-market strategies based on market trends and customer insights.
  • Drive go-to-market execution across multiple industry-focused areas.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • 20 days of paid vacation per year.
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, with additional time for Seattle-based employees.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave and 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

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 experience addressing their business needs with AI-driven solutions.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience with enterprise databases (e.g., relational and non-relational), large-scale distributed data systems, and infrastructure.
  • Experience with strategic thought leadership with 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

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Our goal in Cloud Databases is to develop an exceptional databases offering to help give customers industry leading capabilities in data management.

Spanner is an always-on database with virtually unlimited scale and strong consistency guarantees. It's a single database that unifies relational, graph, key-value, and search. As the database technology that powers most of the services on Google and GCP, Spanner is one of the most innovative and critical services for supporting high scale, business-critical workloads. The primary mission of our team is to enable businesses to deliver highly scalable, secure, performant, and reliable solutions without needing to handle any of the heavy-lifting associated with managing large scale distributed databases.

As the Director of Product Management for Spanner, you will scale the Product Management organization and its leadership team to best support the fast growing databases business. You will be responsible for establishing customer-centric product strategy for Spanner, building thought leadership in this market segment, and driving go-to-market strategy and execution. You will execute across numerous proprietary and open source technologies to solve the most demanding problems for our customers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $281000 - $392000 (USD) 30% bonus target equity benefits

Responsibilities
  • Develop a strategic outlook and collaborate with customers, partners, the field, and engineering to offer a coherent roadmap for our internal and external customers.
  • Work across product, engineering, and services teams to define, build, and support database products that span across a portfolio of product offerings. Drive decisions around prioritization, solutions, functionality, and pricing.
  • Build and drive a thought leadership narrative with customers and industry thought leaders around databases and how it fits into the greater data narrative.
  • Define database product go-to-market strategies, identify key market/competitive trends and customer opportunities, and plan and manage programs to execute against those strategies by partnering with sales leadership at a regional and global level.
  • Drive go-to-market strategy across a variety of industry focused areas and customer segments.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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