Senior Product Marketing Manager, Home Hardware and Solutions

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

The Google Home team is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead product marketing for Google Home hardware and solutions across first-party and second-party ecosystems.

You will build and scale a high-performing team of marketers, drive GTM campaigns, shape portfolio strategy for 1P devices (cameras, thermostats, speakers, displays) and co-built solutions with partners, while partnering with executives across product, sales, insights and design to deliver growth across global markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9 years of marketing experience across one or more marketing fields (e.g. product marketing, partner marketing, brand marketing, GTM, growth).
• 2 years of experience in direct people management.
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects with external partners and stakeholders.
• Experience working with executive leaders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team, fostering ownership, learning, and innovation while instilling an impact-driven mindset focused on influence, proactivity, and executional excellence.
• Partner with hardware and 2P leadership across product, product planning, growth, sales, insights, design, UX, and marketing to translate insights into strategy.
• Oversee 1P hardware strategy, drive sales and subscriptions, and lead GTM campaigns and channels for cross-portfolio launches.
• Scale Home second-party reach by leading marketing strategies with partners, resellers, and retailers, defining positioning frameworks to maximize adoption.

Skills

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Marketing strategy

Executive stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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.
• 9 years of experience in marketing working across one or more marketing fields (i.e. product marketing, partner marketing, brand marketing, GTM, growth).
• 2 years of experience in direct people management.
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects with external partners and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with executive leaders and cross-functional teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience utilizing AI to solve multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Experience building relationships with varied partners and influencing at multiple levels.
• Ability to treat team success as your own, own taking accountability for the impact of your initiatives and collaboratively solving problems, even when they fall outside your scope.
• Ability to approach challenges, synthesizing ambiguity into structured analysis, evaluating options, and delivering recommendations, resolving issues and driving business.
• Ability to address challenges with the mindset of a hypothesis-driven learner, leveraging data and experimentation to validate strategies, pivot, iterate, and optimize outcomes as new information emerges.

About The Job

The Google Home team’s mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it, and the world around it. As the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Google Home Hardware and Solutions across first-party and second-party, you will lead a high-performing team of product marketers to shape the future of the home experience. In this critical leadership role, you will drive the marketing for a unique dual portfolio, you will advocate our iconic first-party (1P) Google Home and Nest hardware (e.g. cameras, doorbells, thermostats, speakers, smart displays, media streamers), while strategically scaling our "second-party," ecosystem, driving co-built devices, solution and subscription growth with global partners like Walmart (e.g. onn cameras) and AT&T (e.g. Connected Life security solution). 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: $171000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead and develop a team, fostering ownership, learning, and innovation while instilling an impact-driven mindset focused on influence, proactivity, and executional excellence, removing roadblocks and ensuring alignment between outputs and business objectives.
• Partner with hardware and 2P leadership across product, product planning, growth, sales, insights, design, UX, and marketing to ensure portfolio fit, translating insights and market research/analysis into strategies that influence and guide product and feature roadmap decisions.
• Oversee 1P hardware strategy, driving sales and subscriptions, while leading team execution of GTM campaigns and channels to ensure successful cross-portfolio launches.
• Scale Home second-party reach by leading marketing strategies with partners, resellers, and retailers, and driving partner enablement through playbooks showcasing products, features and subscriptions, defining frameworks for positioning, value proposition, and co-branding to maximize adoption based on partner dynamic understanding the competitive landscape.

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.