Group Product Manager, Horizontal Solutions, AI Foundations

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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 (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance 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: Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Jose, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA . Minimum 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 (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc). Experience building, launching, and managing developer platforms, developer tools, or cloud infrastructure as a product, treating internal or external developers as customers. Experience with Large Language Model (LLM) evaluations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic workflows. Preferred qualifications Master's degree in a technology or business related field. 5 years of prior experience as a software engineer or developer. Experience with cloud computing architectures, auto-scaling infrastructure, and capacity planning for high-concurrency systems managing massive traffic spikes. High-Volume API Management: Demonstrated expertise managing high-throughput API suites, SDKs, or machine-to-machine traffic (including API usability, rate-limiting frameworks, and API gateways) Solid understanding of data platform management (e.g., data pipelines, streaming, or data lakes) paired with a deep technical grasp of the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). 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 AI Foundations organization is building the core platforms and infrastructure to power Alphabet's next generation of AI innovation. The newly formed Horizontal Solutions team within AI Foundations is critical to this mission. In this role, you will lead the strategy, definition, and scaling of unified, cross‑pillar product solutions within AI Foundations. You will be a key leader in enabling Alphabet's transition to an agentic era, where autonomous AI agents will deploy workflows at an unprecedented scale and concurrency. This is a pivotal role impacting Google's "Faster Google" initiative, requiring you to optimize internal developer platforms and infrastructure to manage transactional volumes orders of magnitude larger than traditional human‑developer velocities. You will stitch together distinct vertical portfolios into a unified, auto‑scaling developer experience. The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company. Individual pay is determined by factors including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits Responsibilities Define and drive the product goals and strategy for unified, end‑to‑end solutions across Google3, Cloud, DevAI, and Analytics within AI Foundations. Lead the effort to integrate and scale distinct vertical product portfolios into a seamless, auto‑scaling developer experience optimized for autonomous AI agents. Operate with extreme autonomy to establish the playbook for cross‑pillar scale and alignment, making high‑stakes trade‑off decisions on integration and capacity prioritization. Orchestrate and exert influence without authority across all six core AI Foundations portfolio Product Manager leaders, as well as horizontal enablement partners like Go‑To‑Market and Customer Engagement. Represent AI Foundations’ unified solutions and platform scaling roadmaps to executive engineering leaders across Product Areas to ensure their infrastructure is ready for agentic automation, building trust and steering internal customers toward standardized, high‑scale, AI‑native platforms. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Google