Product Marketing Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine

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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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in marketing or technical fields (i.e. product marketing, technical marketing, sales engineer, customer engineer, product manager, outbound product manager).
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience in the cloud infrastructure space, particularly with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and AI/ML compute workloads.
• Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to solve complex, multi-layered problems and streamline business or development workflows.
• Strong emotional intelligence to manage product vs. sales dynamics and influence without direct authority.

Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the product and help it grow a consumer base.

This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

Whether you are working on our core infrastructure platforms (like Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine) or developer and enterprise tools (like Firebase, Big Query, and Anthos), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey. From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization, and developer communications, you help shape the product and drive adoption across startups and global enterprises alike.

This means you work with a cross-functional team across Enterprise Sales, developer relations, legal, product management, engineering, and solutions architecture. In this role, you will be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.

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…