Product Manager, Search Ads Quality Modeling

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Product Manager to lead initiatives in Ad Relevance and User Quality. You will guide products from concept to launch, bridging technical and business teams to deliver impactful search ads.

Work with engineers from Google Research and DeepMind to integrate AI/ML into the ads stack, ensuring high-quality user experiences and scalable performance. This role emphasizes collaboration across ads, shopping, and experiences teams, with opportunities to influence strategy and product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
• Experience building or integrating AI and ML technologies into ads prediction, auction stack, or quality and ranking systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop insights of user behavior and sentiment on Google, and contribute to the long-term growth of the search advertising business.
• Translate knowledge into ways to better model quality user experiences, either through new models/approaches or enhancing existing models.
• Drive leadership alignment and buy-in on high visibility projects.
• Collaborate with auction teams to better understand and account for user experience in the search ads auction.
• Partner with product teams in Search Ads and Ads on Google Experiences (SAGE), DeepMind, User Experience (UX) and User Experience Research (UXR), and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Product management experience

AI/ML integration experience

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience building or integrating AI and ML technologies into ads prediction, auction stack, or quality and ranking systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with quality or modeling specific product management (e.g., ranking, content retrieval or disabling, automated evaluation or ground truth generation, etc.).
• Experience in a product management role.
• Ability to communicate topics and switch between high-level concerns (e.g., strategy, macroeconomic effects) and low-level issues (e.g., how costs will move for a single query).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention-to-detail.

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.

As a part of the team, you will be at the forefront of bringing the latest advancements in foundational models to ads. As a Product Manager in the Ad Relevance and User Quality team, you will play a key role in building the ML models that are responsible for showing useful ads to users across Google Search and AI Mode. You will work with a high-performing engineering team and partner with teams across Google, including research teams in Google Research and DeepMind to build AI systems that continue to raise the quality standards for search and shopping ads on Google.

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.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop insights of user behavior and sentiment on Google, and contribute to the long-term growth of the search advertising business.
• Translate knowledge into ways to better model quality user experiences, either through new models/approaches or enhancing existing models.
• Drive leadership alignment and buy-in on high visibility projects.
• Collaborate with auction teams to better understand and account for user experience in the search ads auction.
• Partner with product teams in Search Ads and Ads on Google Experiences (SAGE), DeepMind, User Experience (UX) and User Experience Research (UXR), and cross-functional partners.

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 .