Product Manager, Activation, Gemini App

DeepMind•Los Angeles, CA

71d

About The Position

We are seeking a Product Management Lead for Intelligent Reply & Activation to shape how Gemini communicates, educates, and earns the trust of every user. This executive role is centered on designing the reply systems and conversational strategies that convert a user's initial curiosity into long-term, retained engagement. You will blend product growth, AI behavior design, and conversational UX to tackle the critical "understanding gap," ensuring that every interaction is intelligent, contextual, and confidence-building. By treating the reply as the primary activation engine, you will make Gemini feel approachable, personal, and indispensable to new and marginal users discovering its power.

Requirements

Consumer Growth Leadership: 7+ years of Product Management experience with a proven, measurable track record of delivering highly successful, 0-to-1 consumer products and driving key growth metrics (Acquisition, Retention, Monetization)
Strategic Accountability: Extensive experience setting a clear product and business strategy, securing executive buy-in, defining necessary resourcing, and operating with full accountability for the outcomes on a global scale
Founder Mindset & Action Bias: You operate with a true startup/founder mentality, demonstrating a fierce bias toward action, a mastery of ambiguity/simplification, and a relentless willingness to tackle problems hands-on
Customer Obsession & Simplicity: Possess a deep customer obsession and an ability to take on complex, deeply technical challenges, translating them into elegant, simple, and delightful user experiences
Technical & Analytical Rigor: Familiarity with systems thinking, a deep fluency in analytics, experiment design, funnel optimization, and a solid understanding of software development processes and concepts
High-Bar Influence: Maintain a relentlessly high bar for your own contributions and those of your team, possessing the leadership and communication skills to effectively manage and align senior executives and cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

A true passion for Google DeepMinds mission, our products and AI field
You have a knack for taking on complex product challenges and finding elegant solutions that are delightfully simple for our users
You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguator/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on
Experience leading geographically distributed cross-functional teams in an energetic, high octane environment
Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
Extensive experience setting and delivering on a strategy you crafted, where you were accountable for the outcomes
You have a knack for taking on complex product challenges and finding elegant solutions that are delightfully simple for our users
From your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on, you have a never-ending desire to grow and learn
Consumer growth experience with a track record of delivering highly successful and innovative products

Responsibilities

Lead AI Activation Strategy: Own the vision and strategy for the Intelligent Reply layer, designing conversational frameworks that onboard, educate, and retain new and marginal users
Drive Growth Through Conversation: Create systems and strategies to guide discovery in chat, ensuring replies surface relevant capabilities, use cases, and contextual teaching moments ("Try this next...")
Bridge AI & Business Metrics: Partner with Model, Platform, and Growth teams to ensure reply behavior and personalization accelerate core business metrics, including activation, retention, and subscription conversion
Define Reply Intelligence & Quality: Establish the framework for how Gemini structures, prioritizes, and delivers responses, defining and measuring quality standards across helpfulness, reasoning depth, and emotional resonance
Build Core Growth Infrastructure: Be scrappy and build MVPs, then partner with Engineering to architect and launch 0→1 infrastructure (APIs, event triggers, growth tools) to accelerate testing velocity
Scale MarTech & Creative Systems: Design and launch AI-powered creative systems (dynamic content, automated asset production) and a modern MarTech stack to support sophisticated targeting and real-time optimization
Lead Rigorous Experimentation: Develop testing roadmaps and lead A/B testing on reply strategies, AI workflows, and creative concepts, driving measurable impact on the full funnel
Strategic Vision & Alignment: Distill the vision and strategic direction, obtaining executive buy-in on critical priorities and leading the definition and launch of innovation initiatives across the company
Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a bridge between Marketing, Product, Growth, and Technical teams, effectively presenting strategy and translating growth objectives into scalable system requirements
Operational Excellence: Proactively anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down execution, ensuring smooth delivery on operational, product, and program objectives