Director, Engineering, Product Experimentation and Evaluations

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 307,000 - 427,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an Engineering Director for the Product Experimentation and Evaluations team to lead the transformation of the AI-era product testing and market impact ecosystem. You will design and implement an integrated, agent-centric platform that rapidly provides trusted market insights and reduces human toil across experimentation lifecycles.

The role focuses on consolidating tools, aligning partner infrastructure teams, and building a high-performance engineering organization that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering, with 8 years in a technical engineering role.
• 10 years of experience in engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and consolidate disparate experimentation tools/teams into a single, cohesive platform that delivers on needs of product areas to innovate, experiment, evaluate, and ship at massive scale/speed.
• Navigate highly-volatile and fast-evolving product requirements as AI-native capabilities continue to transform both user-facing features and internal developer workflows.
• Manage/build a team with a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, partnership, and bias-to-action.
• Work with cross-functional leaders to achieve alignment on strategy roadmaps, drive coordinated execution against strategic goals, and ensure success for our customers.
• Optimize roadmap execution and adapt priorities to balance near-term customer needs with long-term strategic outcomes.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Jose, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in software engineering, with 8 years in a technical engineering role.
• 10 years of experience in engineering leadership.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building technical strategy and roadmaps with customer requirements in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to build alignment with partner infrastructure teams to execute collaboratively.
• Ability to distill complex technical and organizational challenges into clear, actionable narratives for senior leadership and partners.
• Proven track record of leading large engineering organizations (50+ people) in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Proven success in building collaborative and high-accountability team cultures that attract talent.

About The Job

As the Engineering Director for the Product Experimentation and Evaluations team, you will lead the transformation of Google's product testing and market impact assessment ecosystem for the AI era. You will develop and implement a strategy that shifts from fragmented, human-led analytics and experimentation platforms toward an integrated, agent-centric ecosystem optimized to rapidly provide trusted market insights. This will involve leveraging AI and agents to streamline experiment configuration, eliminate human toil, and guarantee the integrity of evaluation analysis.

Agentic development dramatically reduces the cost of feature implementation, resulting in market leadership being determined by the speed at which we are able to extract reliable insights from concurrent experiments. This role provides the opportunity to radically transform Google’s ability to ship the most impactful products.

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.

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

US: $307000 - $427000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Define strategy and lead consolidation of disparate experimentation tools/teams into a single, cohesive platform that delivers on needs of product areas to innovate, experiment, evaluate, and ship at massive scale/speed. Drive rapid execution of the platform strategy, with focus on accelerating product area success in evaluating features in the market and generating trustworthy insights with full agentic execution of the experimentation lifecycle.
• Navigate highly-volatile and fast-evolving product requirements as AI-native capabilities continue to transform both user-facing features and internal developer workflows.
• Manage/build a team with a culture of technical excellence, customer obsession, partnership, and bias-to-action.
• Work with cross-functional leaders to achieve alignment on strategy roadmaps, drive coordinated execution against strategic goals, and ensure success for our customers.
• Optimize roadmap execution and adapt priorities to balance near‑term customer needs with long‑term strategic outcomes.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .