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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in a Business Development, Product Management, Product Specialist or similar role working with product teams in a mobile context.
  • 3 years of experience in the mobile apps or games industry.

Preferred qualifications:

  • MBA or other relevant advanced degree or relevant military experience.
  • Knowledge of and interest in mobile app development and related topics.
  • Success working within cross-functional PM/engineering teams to scope requirements, identify good product-market fit and roll out new product features and capability through go-to-market teams.
  • Ability to analyze research or performance data, develop insights and apply those insights to optimize business development and product strategy.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills, with ability to both develop creativity and drive operational process and discipline.
  • Excellent communication skills and collaborative working approach.

About the job

Product Specialists bridge the gap between Product and Partners and work with BD Managers to solicit partner feedback to help inform product roadmaps. Product Specialists help build the value proposition and articulate product market fit for our partners. As a Product Specialist with the Google Play BD team at Google Play, you will partner with Play and Android’s Product and Engineering teams for a specific area of focus which may include: the Google Play Store (across multiple surfaces such as Mobile, Tablet and Chrome OS) and the Android platform. You will act as a subject matter expert (SME) on developers, their business needs and technical challenges to synthesize and prioritize critical developer feedback to help ensure that our product teams have the input they need to create products with maximum developer and end user value.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Create a point of view on a particular product’s fit among a category or region of developers and help devise partner lists alongside Product and Business Development.
  • Use partner feedback to help inform product roadmaps and launch decisions.
  • Attend strategic partner meetings alongside Business Development Manager colleagues.
  • Deliver team-wide communications and training about the product roadmap, features and rollout plans for an assigned area.
  • Work with cross-functional teams such as Developer Marketing and Developer Relations to create compelling product narratives that educate and enable Play BD Managers to effectively bring new platforms, products and features to our developer partners.