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Principal Product Manager, Horizontal Solutions Lead, AI Foundations
GoogleSunnyvale, CA, USASenior15+ years
Apply In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. 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
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in product management, directing technical product lifecycles, and launching developer platforms, cloud architectures, or scalable infrastructure.
- Experience driving product strategy and engineering alignment across multiple cross-functional organizations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience productizing enterprise-grade horizontal developer platforms, high-throughput API suites, and auto-scaling infrastructure.
- Technical mastery of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), high-concurrency systems design, large-scale data platforms, and cloud computing architectures.
- Knowledge of modern AI/ML architectures, including LLM evaluations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic workflow designs.
- Understanding of machine-to-machine traffic patterns, API design usability, rate-limiting frameworks, and system capacity planning.
- Ability to command respect and influence senior technical leaders (e.g., Directors/VPs) across disparate product areas without direct organizational authority.
About the job
Core AI Foundations organization was created within Core by bringing in engineering teams from across Core Data, Core Developer, Privacy, Safety, and Security, and Cross-Google Engineering. With a mission to accelerate and scale Google’s ability to deliver products in the AI era. By unifying scale with relentless innovation, AI Foundations organization is charted to ensure our systems are faster, safer, reliable, and efficient. It aims to deliver at the edge of what is possible, meeting today’s demands while engineering the foundations for tomorrow.
As the Principal Product Manager and Horizontal Solutions Lead for AI Foundations, you will play a defining role in Google’s evolution into the agentic era. Operating at a broad product area scope with extreme autonomy, you will lead the strategy, definition, and scaling of unified, cross-pillar product solutions within AI Foundations (spanning Google3, Cloud, DevAI, Analytics, and infrastructure).
In this role, you will serve as the core product management leader enabling initiatives, specifically architecting and optimizing our developer platforms to mange the massive, high-concurrency transactional volumes generated by autonomous AI agents. Unlike traditional developer platforms designed for human-scale velocities, your work will prepare Google’s global infrastructure for an increase in transactional load driven by agentic automation loops. You will lead cross-product area collaborations, align roadmaps across six distinct strategic product pillars, and establish the industry-first playbook for machine-to-machine developer experiences.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $281000 - $392000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Define the horizontal solutions roadmap, driving infrastructure.
- Architect machine-to-machine standards. Resolve cross-pillar engineering trade-offs.
- Orchestrate across core pillars. Engage senior leadership. Break down silos.
- Raise the bar for product excellence. Mentor junior talent. Foster a collaborative environment.
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