Director, Spanner Database Product Management

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

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.