Product Manager, Activation, Gemini App

Snapshot

The Growth & Discovery Team is the engine responsible for driving massive user and revenue expansion for Gemini across all audiences—consumers, businesses, and developers. Operating across the full user lifecycle, the team executes a comprehensive strategy that spans Acquisition (getting people in), Activation (getting them to their "aha" moment quickly), Retention (making Gemini indispensable through feature discovery and valuable use cases), and Expansion/Monetization (converting engaged users into subscribers). We accomplish this through a combination of in-product funnel optimization, global performance marketing, disciplined experimentation powered by an advanced platform, and the exploration of novel growth loops and distribution channels like Viral Sharing and Emerging Markets, ultimately building the essential systems and infrastructure to ensure scalable, efficient, and AI-powered growth for the entire Gemini ecosystem.

About Us

Artificial Intelligence could be one of humanity’s most useful inventions. At Google DeepMind, we’re a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, and collaborate with others on critical challenges, ensuring safety and ethics are the highest priority.

The Role

We are seeking a Product Management Lead for Intelligent Reply & Activation to shape how Gemini communicates, educates, and earns the trust of every user. This executive role is centered on designing the reply systems and conversational strategies that convert a user's initial curiosity into long-term, retained engagement. You will blend product growth, AI behavior design, and conversational UX to tackle the critical "understanding gap," ensuring that every interaction is intelligent, contextual, and confidence-building. By treating the reply as the primary activation engine, you will make Gemini feel approachable, personal, and indispensable to new and marginal users discovering its power.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead AI Activation Strategy: Own the vision and strategy for the Intelligent Reply layer, designing conversational frameworks that onboard, educate, and retain new and marginal users
• Drive Growth Through Conversation: Create systems and strategies to guide discovery in chat, ensuring replies surface relevant capabilities, use cases, and contextual teaching moments ("Try this next...")
• Bridge AI & Business Metrics: Partner with Model, Platform, and Growth teams to ensure reply behavior and personalization accelerate core business metrics, including activation, retention, and subscription conversion
• Define Reply Intelligence & Quality: Establish the framework for how Gemini structures, prioritizes, and delivers responses, defining and measuring quality standards across helpfulness, reasoning depth, and emotional resonance
• Build Core Growth Infrastructure: Be scrappy and build MVPs, then partner with Engineering to architect and launch 0→1 infrastructure (APIs, event triggers, growth tools) to accelerate testing velocity
• Scale MarTech & Creative Systems: Design and launch AI-powered creative systems (dynamic content, automated asset production) and a modern MarTech stack to support sophisticated targeting and real-time optimization
• Lead Rigorous Experimentation: Develop testing roadmaps and lead A/B testing on reply strategies, AI workflows, and creative concepts, driving measurable impact on the full funnel
• Strategic Vision & Alignment: Distill the vision and strategic direction, obtaining executive buy-in on critical priorities and leading the definition and launch of innovation initiatives across the company
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a bridge between Marketing, Product, Growth, and Technical teams, effectively presenting strategy and translating growth objectives into scalable system requirements
• Operational Excellence: Proactively anticipate and remove obstacles that slow down execution, ensuring smooth delivery on operational, product, and program objectives

About You

In order to set you up for success as a Growth & Discovery Product Manager for our Gemini App team at DeepMind,  we look for the following skills and experience:

• Consumer Growth Leadership: 7+ years of Product Management experience with a proven, measurable track record of delivering highly successful, 0-to-1 consumer products and driving key growth metrics (Acquisition, Retention, Monetization)
• Strategic Accountability: Extensive experience setting a clear product and business strategy, securing executive buy-in, defining necessary resourcing, and operating with full accountability for the outcomes on a global scale
• Founder Mindset & Action Bias: You operate with a true startup/founder mentality, demonstrating a fierce bias toward action, a mastery of ambiguity/simplification, and a relentless willingness to tackle problems hands-on
• Customer Obsession & Simplicity: Possess a deep customer obsession and an ability to take on complex, deeply technical challenges, translating them into elegant, simple, and delightful user experiences
• Technical & Analytical Rigor: Familiarity with systems thinking, a deep fluency in analytics, experiment design, funnel optimization, and a solid understanding of software development processes and concepts
• High-Bar Influence: Maintain a relentlessly high bar for your own contributions and those of your team, possessing the leadership and communication skills to effectively manage and align senior executives and cross-functional teams

In addition, the following would be an advantage: 

• A true passion for Google DeepMinds mission, our products and AI field
• You have a knack for taking on complex product challenges and finding elegant solutions that are delightfully simple for our users
• You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master disambiguator/simplifier, and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on
• Experience leading geographically distributed cross-functional teams in an energetic, high octane environment
• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative field
• Extensive experience setting and delivering on a strategy you crafted, where you were accountable for the outcomes
• You have a knack for taking on complex product challenges and finding elegant solutions that are delightfully simple for our users
• From your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on, you have a never-ending desire to grow and learn
• Consumer growth experience with a track record of delivering highly successful and innovative products

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $227,000 USD - $320,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your targeted location during the hiring process.

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