Product Manager, Google Fonts

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional partners with deep type-design expertise to build an AI-ready infrastructure and modern brand fonts that scale across Google's ecosystem.
• Drive the overarching product strategy to build typographic intelligence into foundational AI programs like Gemini, enabling designers and developers to create cohesive, desirable products.
• Align roadmaps and land advanced typographic innovations with major internal partners utilizing Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) data to optimize customer strategies.
• Partner with Material Design to drive adoption of Google Sans Flex and Google Symbols, while defining a data-driven 2027 internationalization roadmap to expand language support.
• Modernize the open-source text stack by migrating from legacy C++ to memory-safe Rust, pioneering Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) web standards, and delivering automated evaluations for AI-generated content.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical product management or a similar role leading developer-facing or designer-facing platform infrastructure.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience with the AI/ML product development life-cycle.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• 2 years of experience in software development or engineering.
• 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales finance, and other stakeholders.
• Experience in typography, design systems, visual identity branding, or digital asset delivery protocols.

Benefits

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Pay

US: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Not specified