Lead Group Product Manager, Ads and Commerce, Payments Risk

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

Job summary

Google seeks a Lead Group Product Manager for Ads and Commerce, Payments Risk to own risk management across Google’s enterprise products and Payments Platform. You will lead end-to-end roadmaps, partner with engineers, data scientists and operations, and mentor a high-performing team while shaping organizational strategy.

The role requires experience in online trust and safety, ML/GenAI initiatives, and executive communication to align cross-functional stakeholders across the company.

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.
• Experience in online trust and safety or risk management product.
• Experience launching AI or ML products or features, partnering with operations, analytics, data science, and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds.
• Build risk management function for Google Payments Platform and enterprise products.
• Partner with engineers, data scientists, operations, and cross‑functional stakeholders to shape and execute roadmaps.
• Advocate organizational excellence and manage hiring goals and attrition-mitigation strategies.
• Foster leadership, psychological safety, and career development across the team.

Skills

Product management experience

End-to-end product lifecycle

Risk management product

ML/AI product launch

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or advanced degree

Job description

Lead Group Product Manager, Ads and Commerce, Payments Risk

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• 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.

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 we 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.

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

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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.

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