Google Looking For Production Manager, Retail, Devices & Services at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Preferred qualifications:
Retail marketing experience, including Point of Purchase (POP), temporary product display, fixture production and familiarity with big box retailers and their requirements

Print production experience

Familiarity with reading engineering drawings

Ability to work well under deadlines and effectively manage multiple priorities and projects at once

Strong organizational, planning, communication and negotiation skills

Strong analytical skills for evaluating vendor quotes, complex store data and budgets

About the job

Our marketing campaign projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus. As part of the Global Marketing team, you plan requirements with internal customers and/or external agencies and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it’s your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project’s progress and deadlines.

The Devices & Services organization – home to Google Pixel and Google Nest device brands – is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing areas at Google. As Production Manager on the Retail team, you’ll successfully transform designs into final fixtures in support of Google in 3rd party retailer environments. You will partner closely with the Design Manager to bring their ideas to life through researching materials, building prototypes, vendor selection, bidding, printing, and producing projects of the highest quality meeting Google’s standards.

Your role will also include partnering with the Security Manager to develop security solutions for Google hardware devices ensuring seamless integration across all fixtures. You will build and maintain production schedules and manage suppliers for the project lifecycle, from development through production and distribution. You will manage all quality assurance/quality control checks maintaining the highest quality possible, approve all pack-outs and ensure on budget and on time delivery of projects.

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.

Responsibilities

Manage production of POS/POP projects from concept to completion with a strong focus on technical excellence partnering closely with Creative Teams to ensure you bring their vision to life in form and function answering both creative and strategic intent.

Present options and recommendations to leadership from a prototype, cost, materials and manufacturing POV.

Manage merchandising of all components that go on a fixture to ensure you’re accounting for these in costs and execution.

Work with Security Manager and Design team on new products to integrate solutions into existing and new fixtures including partnering with each product engineering team to seamlessly integrate custom security solutions for each device; develop options, prototypes, timing, and cost estimates.

Work with retail partners to stay current on security and electrical requirements and find appropriate solutions when needed.

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