Product Specialist, Core GTM, Google Play

Google Play is at the heart of the Android ecosystem, providing the apps, games, and digital content that bring Android devices to life. The Play Store serves more than 2.5B users across the world, and is a critical driver of Google’s overall growth. Googlers working on the Play Go-To-Market (GTM) teams own content strategy and publishing within the Play Store across all regions and verticals (e.g., apps, games, and more).

As a Product Specialist, you will partner with different Play product marketing, product, and engineering teams to determine the requirements and roadmap for launching and optimizing emerging programs, features, and products. You'll lead the operationalization efforts, connecting the ‘what’ with the ‘how’, and coming up with solutions and processes that enable scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $137,000-$200,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize business needs, strategy, and operational requirements into prioritized product roadmaps.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to land programs, and influence UX, targeting, developer process integrations, and internal management tools.
• Develop business cases and requirements, negotiating with multiple engineering and product management teams through iterative discussions.
• Own the operationalization of features, managing all launch details from design and legal to testing and training.
• Serve as the platform subject matter expert, advising marketing and operations teams on offer structure and experimentation.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in a product management, product specialist, or similar role working with product in an online commerce or content business.
• Experience working in an e-commerce, gaming, or apps digital content business.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and navigate large, global organizations effectively.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams on CRM, Salesforce, or marketing infrastructure.
• Experience in translating research and performance data into actionable insights for product roadmaps.
• Experience in launching and iterating user-facing features while managing complex product trade-offs.
• Proficiency in designing and managing robust product development and operationalization frameworks.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and prioritize workloads using thorough business case analysis.