Director, Product Management, Developer Experience, Android App Safety
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience managing and leading product management or product operations teams.
- 10 years of experience as a people manager in Product Management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience leading product development in the security and privacy or trust and safety spaces.
- Demonstrated ability to build and communicate a long-term vision and strategy.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including driving operational excellence.
- Thought leadership around both user privacy and security and developer success.
- Passion for, and has provided thought leadership around, both user privacy and security and developer success.
About the job
Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform with active devices worldwide. Because Android is an open platform, developers can choose a wide variety of app distribution paths and consumers can choose where they get their apps and games. In fact, more than half of Android devices come with two or more app stores preinstalled. The Android App Safety team builds novel detection and enforcement solutions, provides platform technologies to give app reviewers superpowers, ensures a positive experience for well-intentioned developers and continually earns the trust of our users.
As the Director in the Android App Safety team, you will be a leader for the product team that works hard every day to keep Android users safe and developers successful. You’ll be responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing products, policies, and operations around safe Android applications, including the introduction of new form factors and GenAI technologies. Your role requires protecting against abuse in the Android and Play ecosystems while building trust with legitimate actors and organizations. You will own implementing a seamless app review and publishing experience for developers across all aspects of that lifecycle. You'll establish a prominent voice in the developer community, incorporating external feedback and empathy into our operations, ensuring our systems lead the industry for quality and excellence.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $272,000-$383,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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 preferred location during the hiring process.Responsibilities
- Optimize the end-to-end developer experience during the app review and publishing process, identifying and implementing improvements across policies, guidelines, communications, systems and tooling.
- Design processes, metrics, and systems to support Android form factors beyond mobile, like XR, to ensure seamless policy enforcement operations that are adapted to their unique use cases.
- Partner closely with Trust & Safety to drive continuous improvement in productivity, quality, and service delivery, backed by robust analytics and insights into trends and opportunities.
- Transform learnings from incidents into product features to mitigate recurrence.
- Engage with Play developers through social media and other channels, building relationships with key community members and influencers while identifying pain points related to Play policy.
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