Director, Product Management, Databases, Spanner

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 281,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Holidays

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Director of Product Management for Spanner in the United States. Lead the product strategy, scale the PM organization, and guide the roadmap for a globally distributed, always-on database used across enterprise workloads.

You will champion customer-centric vision, drive GTM execution, and collaborate with engineering, sales, and partners to deliver secure, high-performance data solutions.

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.

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.

Skills

Product management leadership

Roadmap development

AI-driven solutions

Enterprise market

Go-to-market strategy

Education

Bachelors in CS/Math

Masters degree (preferred)

Tools

Databases (Enterprise)

Distributed data systems

Job description

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

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.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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

Responsibilities

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• 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.

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