Senior Product Marketing Manager, Home Hardware and Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 9 years of experience in marketing working across one or more marketing fields (i.e. product marketing, partner marketing, brand marketing, GTM, growth).
  
• 2 years of experience in direct people management.
  
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects with external partners and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  
• Experience working with executive leaders and cross-functional teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience utilizing AI to solve multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Experience building relationships with varied partners and influencing at multiple levels.
• Ability to treat team success as your own,own taking accountability for the impact of your initiatives and collaboratively solving problems, even when they fall outside your scope.
• Ability to approach challenges, synthesizing ambiguity into structured analysis, evaluating options, and delivering recommendations, resolving issues and driving business.
• Ability to address challenges with the mindset of a hypothesis-driven learner, leveraging data and experimentation to validate strategies, pivot, iterate, and optimize outcomes as new information emerges.

About the job

The Google Home team’s mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it, and the world around it.

As the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Google Home Hardware and Solutions across first-party and second-party, you will lead a high-performing team of product marketers to shape the future of the home experience. In this critical leadership role, you will drive the marketing for a unique dual portfolio, you will advocate our iconic first-party (1P) Google Home and Nest hardware (e.g. cameras, doorbells, thermostats, speakers, smart displays, media streamers), while strategically scaling our "second-party," ecosystem, driving co-built devices, solution and subscription growth with global partners like Walmart (e.g. onn cameras) and AT&T (e.g. Connected Life security solution).

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team, fostering ownership, learning, and innovation while instilling an impact-driven mindset focused on influence, proactivity, and executional excellence, removing roadblocks and ensuring alignment between outputs and business objectives.
• Partner with hardware and 2P leadership across product, product planning, growth, sales, insights, design, UX, and marketing to ensure portfolio fit, translating insights and market research/analysis into strategies that influence and guide product and feature roadmap decisions.
• Oversee 1P hardware strategy, driving sales and subscriptions, while leading team execution of GTM campaigns and channels to ensure successful cross-portfolio launches.
• Scale Home second-party reach by leading marketing strategies with partners, resellers, and retailers, and driving partner enablement through playbooks showcasing products, features and subscriptions, defining frameworks for positioning, value proposition, and co-branding to maximize adoption based on partner dynamic understanding the competitive landscape.