Product Manager I, Google Display Ads, GVP and Walled Gardens
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- 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
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
- 1 year of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).
- 1 year of experience as a Product Manager within the digital advertising ecosystem, including video ad formats, programmatic auction mechanics, and publisher business generation.
- Experience integrating generative AI tools or LLM interfaces into workflows.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a technology or business-related field.
- 2 years of experience as a Product Manager within the digital advertising ecosystem, including video ad formats, programmatic auction mechanics, and publisher business generation.
- Experience with machine learning bidding models, signal ingestion pipelines, and privacy frameworks.
- Experience collaborating with external partners or integrating third-party platforms.
- Experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership.
About the job
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 Product Manager (PM) for GVP and Walled Gardens, you will shape and execute the strategy for two of Display Network’s most strategically vital and high-growth investment areas: Google Video Partners (GVP) and Walled Garden publisher partnerships.
In this role, you will lead the evolution of GVP Brand by bridging core YouTube brand demand (video reach campaigns, video view campaigns, and YouTube shorts) with third-party publisher inventory. Simultaneously, you will drive technical and product integrations with major Walled Garden publishers, unlocking novel first-party signal pipelines, bespoke ad formats, and state-of-the-art bidding optimizations.
This is a high visibility role with direct line of sight to net-incremental business impact. You will collaborate closely with engineering, UX, legal, privacy, and sales teams across both Buyside and Sellside as well as YouTube.
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $138000 - $197000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Define and execute the short-, medium-, and long-term product goals for Google Video Partners (GVP) and Walled Garden publisher integrations.
- Architect the signal integration and bidding optimization roadmap for Walled Gardens, collaborating with sell-side and external publisher engineering teams.
- Partner with Global Business Organization (GBO), Sales, and Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to design global commercialization pilots to accelerate GVP Brand adoption.
- Deliver privacy-centric measurement capabilities for third-party video to provide advertisers with proof of incremental reach and business impact.
- Establish brand safety guardrails, third-party verification integrations, and inventory filtering models to ensure premium brand-safe placements.
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