Product Manager, User Protection

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in product management, product consulting, co-founder, or a related technical role.
- 2 years of experience building and shipping technical products.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
- 4 years of experience as a product manager for software engineering platform products.
- 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, UX/UI, Finance, and other stakeholders.
- 2 years of experience in software development or developer facing roles.
- Experience with content safety and/or security systems.
- Ability to be a product owner for large-scale systems with high reliability requirements.

**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.

User Protection is part of the Privacy, Security, and Safety (PSS) organization in Core, with a mission to keep users safe, at scale. Within User Protection, the Content Safety Platform teams provide a reliable and scalable abuse fighting platform, protecting 77+ products from displaying malicious content.
- In this role, you will own and drive a roadmap to deliver abuse fighting capabilities used by all of Google. Working closely with product and policy partners across Google, you will develop techniques to keep users safe across multiple products and user journeys, developing scalable solutions needed to meet these objectives. As part of the User Protection Program Management team, you will create the fundamental building blocks of content abuse protections and all other Content Safety teams.

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. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with partner teams (e.g., Engineers, Program Managers, UX) during product design and development to implement the requirements to turn Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) into Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for one or more teams.
- Develop and secure buy-in for a product vision that identifies, defines, and supports the overall product narrative and direction, achieving an outcome that is greater than the sum of its parts.- Own cross-functional relationships working cross-Google to understand the needs of policy and product partners.- Focus on landings, customer adoption and feedback to ensure our platforms are able to deliver high-quality and standardized user safety outcomes across Google’s products.
- Develop and execute on product roadmaps to achieve the vision while operationalizing strategy.

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.