Group Product Manager, Wearables Platform, Wear OS

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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Mountain View, CA, USA;
Seattle, WA, USA;
San Francisco, CA, USA
.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in product strategy and system architecture.
• Experience in product management.
• Experience with user-centered design and AI platforms.

• Experience navigating complex commercial platform tradeoffs across device tiers, cross-device experiences, and third-party ecosystem business models.
• Deep user empathy and product taste for building high-signal consumer experiences that solve real friction rather than shipping isolated features.
• Track record co-innovating with external hardware OEMs, silicon partners, or developers, balancing flagship showcases with scalable platform adoption.
• Ability to move fluidly between product strategy and low-level system architecture, partnering with engineers to evolve operating system architecture.
• Fluency with AI and agentic tools, with a clear perspective on how AI reshapes OS architectures and developer ecosystems.

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.

As the Group Product Manager for the Wearables Platform, you will define and execute the strategy to evolve Wear OS into a modular, extensible platform that powers the next generation of ambient AI wearables. You will be at the center of Google's multi-device wearables strategy, bridging foundational software architecture, Gemini intelligence, and third-party original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnerships to power a growing wave of form factors beyond traditional smartwatches, from multi-day trackers and screenless bands to emerging ambient devices.

Are you ready to shape the future of wearable technology and impact how millions of people experience wearables daily? Are you ready to empower developers building the apps that define this rapidly…