What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager, Early Stage Supply Chain Project position at Loon?
Product ManagementMountain View, CA (HQ)
About the team:
We’re X’s moonshot for the global supply chain, applying AI to reduce waste, fragility, and inefficiency. We’re an agile team of experienced AI researchers, software engineers, and entrepreneurs working with visionary partners and customers around the world to make sure everyone has sustainable and reliable access to the food, medicine, clothing, and other goods and services they need.
We’re looking for people who are passionate about revolutionizing the global supply chain to join us at this critical growth stage. You’ll be part of a team that has the agility and impact of an early stage company, while building on world-class Google AI technology.
About the role:
You’ll be at the center of product development, helping to shape our roadmap and bring cutting-edge AI platforms to life. This role is a critical multi-faceted role in an early-stage team where you’ll drive product management but also play an important part in product marketing and program management. You’ll work across AI, software engineering, data science, machine learning, partnerships, and enterprise software systems to deliver products that solve high-impact problems in supply chain management. This key position reports to the project lead for our moonshot.
How you will have 10X impact:
- Develop and maintain clear, inspiring product vision, roadmap, segmentation, and value proposition
- Lead discovery with key partners and customers to deeply understand workflows, pain points, integrations with tools and data sets, and value creation, developing use cases, personas, requirements, capabilities, features, and metrics
- Create experiences that inspire confidence, delight and resonate with end users, and encourage adoption and trust
- Define and implement metrics that validate 10x impact
- Working closely with our researchers, engineers, designers, and partners to guide development and bring our roadmap to life during the product lifecycle:
- Represent the voice of the market, our partners, and customers
- Maintain focus on roadmap priorities
- Determine, prioritize, and manage scope of sprints and releases
- Propose creative solutions to technical issues and challenges
- If needed, provide program management to manage and coordinate the schedule, activities, and deliverables of internal and external parties
- Develop clear, concise product documentation
- Create materials and give presentations that evangelize and articulate product vision, roadmap, and value propositions to technical and non-technical audiences, both internally and externally
- Understand and monitor the market and ecosystem for supply chain management
- Develop novel business models
What you should have:
- BS degree in technical or analytical field (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Statistics) or equivalent practical experience via multiple years as a product manager
- 8 years of demonstrable product management experience in building and launching successful products to enterprise customers and partners
- Experience in enterprise software/SaaS, particularly with one or more of the following: procurement, sourcing, or supply chain risk
- Experience with agile development methodologies (e.g., scrum), related tools (e.g., Jira), and collaborative software development workflows and platforms (e.g. GitHub)
- Experience with using and developing with current AI platforms and tools
- Experience deploying products and services to customers
- Exceptional qualitative and quantitative communication across internal teams and external stakeholders
- Exceptional organization and planning skills
- Ability to achieve goals through influence and collaboration
- Ability to thrive and execute quickly in an environment of constant change and uncertainty
- Ability to embrace failure as a learning opportunity and demonstrate resilience in the face of setbacks.
It’d be great if you also had these:
- Experience in startups or small-team environments
- Experience with Google’s AI tools and platforms
- Experience with Google Cloud and Workspace
- Prior success in productizing research or innovation-stage prototypes.
- Writing samples or public-facing documentation that demonstrate clarity and technical fluency
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000 - $270,000 bonus equity benefits. 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 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.
An Equal Opportunity Workplace
At X, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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