Lead Group Product Manager, Ads and Commerce, Payments Risk

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a seasoned Product Manager for its Payments risk management domain in Mountain View. You will guide products from conception to launch, bridging business needs with scalable technology, and partner with engineers, data science, operations.

You will lead cross-functional teams to develop and execute end-to-end product strategies, balancing risk and opportunity across Ads, Cloud, and Workspace, while leveraging ML/GenAI and platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
• 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.

Responsibilities

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• Craft and execute ambitious long-term product goals and roadmap for the risk domain across Google Enterprise products (Ads, Cloud, Workspace).
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver a scalable product strategy.
• Balance trade-offs to prioritize Google individual businesses and Payments Platform.
• Serve as a thought leader in online risk management and enablement with ML/Generative AI and platform tech.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end product development

AI/ML product experience

Online trust and safety

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Roadmap planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or other advanced degree

Tools

Generative AI tools

Platform tech

Data analytics tools

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product management or related technical role.
• 5 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience in online trust and safety or risk management product.
• Experience launching AI or ML products or features, partnering with both operations, analytics, data science, and engineering.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or other advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in online trust, safety and risk management in a payments ecosystem (processors, issuers, banks, networks).
• Track record of building, inspiring, and managing high-performing product teams.
• Track record in developing end-to-end technical roadmaps and executing projects that leverage ML, GenAI tools, and enterprise products (like Cloud) in conjunction with operations and external vendors.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving thought leadership, and senior stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate roadmaps and concepts across all levels of cross-functional teams, including executive leadership.

About The Job

At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing, so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development.

One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We’re responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users.

In this role, you will build risk management function, providing product expertise and controls for Google businesses leveraging the Payments Platform. You will bridge the gap between business needs and scalable technology by focusing on the current and future risk management requirements for enterprise products. You will develop platform capabilities and solve these needs at scale. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, operations, and cross-functional stakeholders both within Payments and across Google to shape, design, and execute a roadmap.

You will advocate organizational and operational excellence and will resolve cross-team ambiguities, ensure organization-wide leadership alignment, and manage the team’s health by executing hiring goals and attrition‑mitigation strategies. You will foster a culture of psychological safety, setting expectations while training, mentoring, and challenging team members to their career milestones.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

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

Responsibilities

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• Craft and execute an ambitious, inspiring long-term product goals and roadmap for the risk domain - focusing on Google's Enterprise products - Ads, Cloud, Workspace.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Operations, Data Science and Analytics- alongside vertical stakeholders to deliver a scalable product strategy.
• Balance trade-offs between conflicting goals to prioritize the good for Google individual businesses and Payments Platform.
• Serve as a thought leader in online risk management; connect business needs, protection against bad actors and enablement with sophisticated technology stack leveraging predictive signals, ML/Generative AI and platform tech.
• Inspire and influence teams across platform and business verticals through compelling product narratives.

US: $240000 - $333000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 .