Senior Product Manager, YouTube Ads Infrastructure

Google • Mountain View, CA

12h

About The Position

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. As the Product Manager for YouTube's Ads Infrastructure, you will work on developing the next generation of user modeling platforms to be used by all ads teams to enable reactive ad serving. Demand Infrastructure systems provide the foundational ad serving infrastructure that matches users to a growing repository of ads, products, and assets in real-time. The teams deliver innovative capabilities and maximize long-term advertiser value with reliability while maintaining a positive user experience on products. Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 3 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience working with infrastructure and APIs.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• 5 years of experience in a business function or role (e.g., strategic marketing, business operations, consulting).
• 3 years of experience in software development or engineering.
• Experience with one of more of the following: ad serving, ad targeting, personalization, or privacy.
• Experience working across different functions and multiple teams in an organization to deliver products successfully.

Responsibilities

• Define and build the next-generation user-centric profiling, modeling, and serving infrastructure in collaboration with YouTube's ads engineering teams.
• Manage the infrastructure product life-cycle to ensure optimal investments in machine resources while ensuring seamless migration of existing use-cases.
• Transform the ad selection funnel to a user-centric ad serving system that utilizes signals, including generative AI-based insights and ML models to optimize ad performance and relevance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product leads and engineering to define and evolve the product roadmap and product life-cycle for personalization and demand infrastructure systems.
• Define and evolve the strategy for ad personalization and relevance in collaboration with quality/modeling and user and inventory teams.

Benefits

• 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior