Senior Product Manager, Google Photos, Search

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Photos and G1 team seeks a Product Manager to guide search from conception to launch, bridging technical and business worlds and driving end-to-end product development across Google Photos. You will work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, marketers to create user-centered experiences, empower Gemini and Personal Context features, and shape the evolution of search as a platform.

The role emphasizes user obsession, investigative excellence, and strong communication to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead Search in Google Photos and oversee the end-to-end search experience.
• Ensure the search platform can power multiple features and teams across Photos (e.g., Gemini, Personal Context).
• Balance user obsession with analytical rigor, technical fluency, and cross-functional leadership without direct authority.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end product development

GenAI/LMM integration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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.

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• Experience in image understanding and retrieval.
• Experience working on a large consumer products.
• Experience shipping LLM or GenAI-powered experiences that users love.
• Experience building search features and experiences. And executive communication experience.

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.

The mission of the Google Photos and G1 team is to be the home for your life’s content, safely stored and deeply understood, so your personal AI can help you thrive, all through a unified Google membership.

Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

• US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead Search in Google Photos. Search is incredibly important today and even more important as we transform Google Photos to be more agentic.
• Be responsible for the end-to-end search experience, across user experience, quality, and safety. Be responsible for evolving Search into a platform, that can power many other features and teams across Photos - including Gemini, Personal Context, etc.
• Develop a combination of user obsession, investigative excellence, technical fluency, bias to action, communication skills, and organizational leadership without authority.

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 .