Product Marketing Manager, Media, Grow with Google

Grow with Google is Google’s commitment to help create economic opportunities for Americans. Since launching in 2017, we’ve helped more than thirteen million Americans advance their skills, get better jobs, and grow businesses. Google Career Certificates are designed to provide job seekers with the skills they need to access high paying, high growth careers without the need for a college degree. We offer certificates in the fields of IT support, data analytics, project management, user experience (UX) design, and digital marketing & e-commerce. 70% of certificate graduates say the program helped them advance their career within six months, including getting a raise or finding a new job.

As the Media Product Marketing Manager for Grow with Google, you will lead the strategic vision, execution, and optimization of our full funnel paid media efforts to drive learner activation and enrollment into our learning programs.

You will be responsible for end-to-end media planning across Search engine marketing (SEM), Performance Max, Demand Gen, and other paid media channels, translating deep user insights into highly targeted, effective campaigns. In this role, you will apply a user-centric approach to understanding our learner personas, design and test optimization levers across the funnel, and systematically optimize our media budgets to drive scale and efficiency. You will serve as the primary operational and strategic lead for our external agency partners, steering media strategy, defining campaign parameters, and executing media plans.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $141000 - $205000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Develop and own the end-to-end paid media strategy across digital channels (including SEM, Performance Max, Demand Gen, and Paid Social) to meet growth targets.
• Direct the complete media planning process from discovery and briefing through creative production, campaign activation, and performance measurement. Align campaign parameters and secure approvals to brief agency partners.
• Act as the primary lead for external agency partners, managing day-to-day operations, establishing campaign timelines, and executing media plans and optimization strategies.
• Conduct regular reviews of customer journeys, synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights, and build user-centric campaigns that address learner needs and minimize friction.
• Define key performance indicators and set performance benchmarks. Utilize analytical and attribution models (such as conversion lift studies and media mix modeling) to analyze campaign performance, optimize media spend, and guide strategic resource allocation.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in product marketing, growth marketing or digital media planning managing performance marketing campaigns.
• Experience directing paid media campaigns across search, social, display, and video channels.
• Experience managing external creative or media agencies.
• Experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects maintaining project management documentation (e.g., workback schedules, milestone trackers, and campaign launch plans).

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with the Google Ads ecosystem and advanced advertising technology, with a passion for and experience in leveraging AI to optimize paid media performance.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with a track record of translating complex datasets (e.g., funnel analytics, attribution reports) into actionable marketing insights.
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills, with a proven track record of building standardized processes, templates, and rigorous tracking mechanisms (e.g., launch trackers, SLA templates) to streamline complex campaigns and manage operational risks.
• Deep expertise in full-funnel paid media strategy, cross-channel planning, and A/B or experiment design.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.