Global Pixel Product Launch Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
  
• Experience in analyzing data.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with working in the smartphones industry with the knowledge of mobile launch process.
• Experience in managing multiple projects.
• Experience in working with product and engineering teams.
• Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or related tools.
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.

About the job:

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

The Pixel Product Planning and Launch Team is looking for entrepreneurial minded individuals with a mix of business and program management backgrounds to optimize and scale up Google’s Phone business globally.

In this role, you will help manage the life-cycle of phone launch by developing planning and managing work-streams for Google’s premium smartphone Google Pixel. You will help manage and shape some of Google's ventures.

You will be responsible for the coordination of new product and program launch requirements, and identify, develop, define, and document all milestones and deliverables globally.

You are intellectually curious and see the big picture while effectively managing detail, get excited by both the planning and execution aspects of business, and grow in a fluid environment.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$174,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Own the launch of Pixel phone globally, leading across product, Go-to-Market (GTM), partnerships, marketing, forward, reverse, and operations activities.
• Drive the development of a Plan Of Record (POR) for activities that affect multiple cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Assist in initiatives involving global phone launches and program sustainability, including reverse logistics flow, customer service flow, non-commercial unit analysis and due diligence on functional launch readiness.
• Coordinate with global/local and cross-functional program managers (e.g., sales, marketing, supply chain) achieve global synthesis for the Phone Product Operations team.
• Evaluate methods across geographies and publish accepted methods and best practices to build global process and product consistency.