Senior Product Manager, YouTube Ads

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Google seeks a Senior Product Manager for YouTube Ads in Zürich, full-time onsite, to guide products from concept to launch by connecting technical and business worlds. Requirements include a bachelor's degree or equivalent, eight years in product management or related technical roles, and three years shipping end-to-end products. You will own PRDs and roadmaps, drive a compelling product vision, and define metrics while validating market size and opportunity. Preferred: experience with monetization or pricing, ability to navigate ambiguity, entrepreneurial drive, and success leading large cross-functional initiatives. To apply, tailor your resume to show end-to-end impact, quantify outcomes, highlight cross-functional leadership, and provide concrete examples of solving real user problems in ads or monetization.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with business strategy, general management, or monetization/pricing.
• Passion to drive clarity through amiguity in complex environments (technical and business).
• Passion and experience with building impactful products that solve real-world user problems.
• Entrepreneurial drive and comfortable in a fast-paced environment and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated excellence in leading high complexity, large cross-company initiatives across all functional groups - from engineering to business.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead PRDs by collaborating with partner teams (e.g., engineers, PgMs, UX) during product design and development to implement the requirements to turn PRDs into OKRs for multiple teams. 
  
• Own and define project roadmaps.
  
• Drive development 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.
  
• Manage validation of market size and opportunity (e.g., user-based, strategic opportunity, business). 
  
• Lead and harmonize processes to define, identify, collect, and track appropriate product or business metrics, both quantitative and qualitative for new or existing products or business ventures.