About this role

Google is hiring a mid-level Product Manager based in Boulder, CO. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, NLP, Prompt Engineering, A/B Testing. Compensation is listed at $140,000–$205,000 per year.

Role: Product Manager
Function: product
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Boulder, CO
Posted: Jun 26, 2026

AI Summary

Localization Product Strategist advocating for global users by translating commercial business models into linguistic solutions. Builds partner relationships, manages budgets, and leverages machine translation and LLMs to create culturally nuanced product experiences. Requires management consulting or strategic partner management experience with proven cross-functional influence and analytical problem-solving.

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Job description

from Google careers

In gTech Users and Products (gUP), our mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. We achieve this by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with our product partners and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's diverse product ecosystem. Additionally we provide a range of product services that ensure our products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration, and more).

Google is a universally recognized name, and our mission is to empower everyone to get the most out of Google through a native user experience. In an industry increasingly driven by advanced AI and language models, the Localization team ensures Google's ideas and products look, feel, and sound natural to users globally. We collaborate with international Engineering, Product, UX, and Marketing teams to steer products through the localization process and ensure successful global launches.

As a Localization Product Strategist, you will act as an advocate for global users and a consultant to internal teams, translating commercial business models into sophisticated linguistic solutions. Operating as a strategic consulting group, you will build relationships with partner teams to establish needs, deadlines, and budgets, leveraging language and cultural nuances as core engaged differentiators.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out our video.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $140000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

Identify and lead outcomes for internal localization projects, driving the localization of complex products from inception to launch while managing delivery, cost, and vendor execution.
Act as a strategic advisor to manager-level product teams, educating them on the localization journey to align goals and ensure global cultural resonance.
Address complex localization challenges requiring multiple approaches; build scalable processes with systems-level foresight to anticipate issues and mitigate international business risk.
Build compelling business cases for product language expansion opportunities, provide clear strategic recommendations, and present structured solutions to executives.
Manage the product's localization budget, driving annual planning and advocating for resources based on long-term commercial objectives. Identify workflow inefficiencies and drive repeatable solutions, collaborating with Operations and Engineering to deploy AI integration and automated operational scaling tools.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.

Preferred qualifications:

Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, or professional-level multilingual proficiency to drive deep linguistic product strategy.
Experience in management consulting, technical sales, or strategic partner management translating complex commercial models into solutions.
Experience navigating ambiguous environments to implement scalable localization processes, drive technical automation, and mitigate future bottlenecks.
Expertise leveraging machine translation, LLMs, and cultural nuances to create engaged global product differentiators.
Proven ability to influence cross-functionally, align various stakeholder objectives, and present compelling business cases to executives.
Strong analytical problem-solving skills combined with direct accountability for budget management and long-term strategic resource advocacy.