Group Product Manager, Wearables Platform, Wear OS

Join Google to help evolve Wear OS into a modular, extensible platform built for next-generation ambient AI wearables. This Group Product Manager role sits at the intersection of product strategy, system architecture, Gemini intelligence, and third-party OEM partnerships, with a focus on scaling high-quality experiences across many form factors.

Location: Mountain View, CA (onsite)

Compensation: USD 240,000 - 333,000 per year

What you’ll do

• Set platform direction by defining the goal, product strategy, and a multi-year roadmap for evolving Wear OS for the next generation of wearables across different form factors.
• Scale through partners by driving the third-party partner motion and working closely with external OEMs, silicon providers, and device makers to meet hardware and commercial needs while growing Wear OS and core Google services.
• Connect user needs to architecture by translating consumer requirements such as quiet proactivity, glanceable UI, multi-day battery life, and seamless cross-device continuity into system architecture decisions, resource tradeoffs, and developer SDKs.
• Build an AI-first developer model by advocating for AI-native workflows in prototyping and shipping, and designing an agentic developer platform that helps internal teams and external developers build and adapt wearable experiences.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product strategy and system architecture.
• Experience in product management.
• Experience with user-centered design and AI platforms.

How your experience fits

• Experience navigating complex commercial platform tradeoffs across device tiers, cross-device experiences, and third-party ecosystem business models.
• Deep user empathy and product taste for creating high-signal consumer experiences that address real friction.
• A track record co-innovating with external hardware OEMs, silicon partners, or developers while balancing flagship showcases with scalable platform adoption.
• Ability to move between product strategy and low-level system architecture, partnering with engineers to evolve operating system architecture.
• Fluency with AI and agentic tools, including a clear view of how AI reshapes OS architectures and developer ecosystems.

Technologies

• Wear OS
• Gemini
• AI platforms

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• 40 hours/year sick time (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• 13 paid days per year holidays