Group Product Manager, PDLC Tooling, Work AI

Google•San Jose, CA

2d•$240,000 - $333,000

About The Position

Work AI, part of Dev AI, aims to address how the product development lifecycle has become a bottleneck as AI makes software development faster. The role directs product for PDLC Tooling: agentic tools used by Google's designers, product managers, and UX researchers to decide what to build and how it should work. The tools aim to make evidence easier to use, enable exploration of alternatives, preserve design intent, and help teams select the best solution rather than the first workable one. The role builds on internal tools that support designing and prototyping directly on production code and collaborative canvases for high-fidelity prototyping and feedback. The mandate is to scale this work across Google, unite partner efforts across Core, Search, and DeepMind into a coherent experience, and extend the tools across UX, PM, and research workflows. The Group Product Manager sets strategy and roadmap, leads a team of product managers, and personally owns zero-to-one initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of product management experience at a technology company, including experience driving zero-to-one products from concept to adoption.
3 years of experience in people management, leading product managers and cross-functional teams.
Experience building products for designers, product managers, researchers, or other creative professionals, such as design tools, prototyping, research, or collaboration platforms.
Experience shipping products powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) or AI agents.

Nice To Haves

Experience shipping agentic products with measurable quality, including defining evaluations and metrics and improving against them.
Experience building platforms and extensibility models, such as plugins, APIs, and design-system integrations.
Experience driving adoption and behavior change across large user communities, including non-engineers.
Understanding of the product development lifecycle and empathy for design and research craft, with strong product and design taste.
Technical acumen to collaborate with engineers and researchers, and experience prototyping with AI tools.
Ability to align stakeholders across organizations, influence without authority, and communicate complex ideas to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

Set the goal, strategy, and roadmap for PDLC Tooling.
Build and lead a team of product managers while personally owning zero-to-one initiatives.
Scale production-grounded prototyping so teams can explore high-fidelity variants on real design systems and data, and carry the winning design into production code.
Bring agents into PM and UX research workflows, including evidence-backed briefs, living plans, synthetic users, AI-moderated research, and scaled experiments.
Create a guardrailed path for non-engineers to ship well-scoped changes to production.
Partner with DeepMind on design evaluations so internal usage improves Gemini.
Engage lighthouse teams to iterate quickly.
Own north-star metrics, such as time from intent to validated prototype.
Lead the narrative for how Google builds in the agentic era.