Product Marketing Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine

Google LLC; Sunnyvale, Seattle (CA, WA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

PTO 20 days

Sick time 40h/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a seasoned marketing professional to lead end-to-end product marketing initiatives across consumer and developer products. You will shape positioning, naming, competitive analysis, and external communications while collaborating with Sales, Legal, and Product teams to drive adoption and growth.

The role emphasizes cross-functional coordination, market-facing strategy for Kubernetes and AI workloads, and scalable campaigns across startups and enterprises.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in marketing or technical fields.
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end go-to-market plans for Google products, defining audiences and messaging.
• Collaborate with product management and sales to align on roadmap and enablement.
• Create messaging for AI workloads and drive adoption across startups and enterprises.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Marketing strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

X Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• 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: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in marketing or technical fields (i.e. product marketing, technical marketing, sales engineer, customer engineer, product manager, outbound product manager).
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in the cloud infrastructure space, particularly with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and AI/ML compute workloads.
• Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to solve complex, multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Strong emotional intelligence to manage product vs. sales dynamics and influence without direct authority.

About the job

Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

Whether you are working on our core infrastructure platforms (like Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine) or developer and enterprise tools (like Firebase, BigQuery, and Anthos), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization, and developer communications, you help shape the product and drive adoption across startups and global enterprises alike.

This means you work with a cross-functional team across Enterprise Sales, developer relations, legal, product management, engineering, and solutions architecture. In this role, you will be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

About the job

Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the product and help it grow a consumer base. This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

Whether you are working on our core infrastructure platforms (like Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine) or developer and enterprise tools (like Firebase, BigQuery, and Anthos), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization, and developer communications, you help shape the product and drive adoption across startups and global enterprises alike.

This means you work with a cross-functional team across Enterprise Sales, developer relations, legal, product management, engineering, and solutions architecture. In this role, you will be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Execute end-to-end go-to-market plans for GKE, defining audiences from AI startups to enterprises, creating messaging for AI workloads, and aligning launch activities cross-functionally.
• Maintain operational rhythm with product management to stay aligned on the technical roadmap, integrate TAM research, and deliver technical marketing enablement for the sales team.
• Create impactful message houses translating GKE capabilities into business value, and own external content like website updates, blogs, and thought leadership campaigns.
• Implement marketing campaigns to drive adoption and feature usage, focus on bottoms-up technical community engagement, and assist senior leadership with analyst briefings.
• Build cross-functional consensus on launch tactics and strategic pivots within biweekly rhythms, while managing budgets, vendor relationships, and policy compliance.

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