Group Product Manager, Payments - New York  

This position is based in New York, NY.

The area: Product Management

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. With eyes focused squarely on the future, our team works closely with creative and prolific engineers 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 all the markets where Google does business.

The role: Group Product Manager, Payments

As Group Product Manager, Payments, you should be a flexible, results-oriented, and experienced leader who will be responsible for developing and implementing Google's P2P product strategy. You will have visionary product insight, significant technical expertise and extensive leadership and business skills. This role combines a great instinct for developing compelling products with a strong focus on users and the technical aptitude to work with a world class engineering team. You will be able to both strategize with senior leaders on new product ideas and features and work across the team with other product managers, developers and designers to build out our existing products.

You will be self-motivated and able to act with a high level of independence. You will have experience working with financial institutions globally, having built end user products for money transmission, having analyzed and created new product initiatives and grown it to a large active user base. You will have a strong understanding of financial institutions and money transmission.

 

Responsibilities:

• Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.
• Develop and launch new products and enhance existing products.
• Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable execution schedule.
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in science or technical field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
• 7 years of relevant work experience in Product Management, especially consumer facing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills and experience working effectively with senior leaders, peers, and direct reports.
• Proven success in driving product strategy and product design.
• Significant people and organizational management skills. A natural leader and mentor.
• Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements and convert them into a winning product vision.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.