Principal Product Manager, Age Assurance

The Kids & Families team is dedicated to building safe, enriching, and universally accessible experiences for younger users across Google’s ecosystem. As the digital landscape evolves, ensuring age-appropriate experiences, privacy, and compliance is critical to our mission. Our team works at the intersection of complex regulatory requirements, and user-centric design to establish Google as the industry standard for family safety and privacy-preserving age assurance.

As a Principal Product Manager for Age Assurance, you will lead the definitive product strategy for how Google understands and assures user age at scale. You are responsible for building and scaling a portfolio of platforms that allow Google to deliver age-appropriate experiences while strictly adhering to global safety and privacy regulations. You will pragmatically leverage advanced technologies, including Machine Learning, Generative AI and LLMs, where they solve critical problems, while proactively navigating cross-company, multidisciplinary challenges. In this role, you will bridge the gap between engineering, trust & safety, and executive leadership to orchestrate a unified age assurance strategy across all of Google.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

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

US: $281000 - $391000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Define, drive, and execute a cohesive, multi-year product strategy for age assurance and compliance. Move Google beyond product area-specific solutions to a unified, globally-scalable age assurance platform.
• Build robust systems for age determination. Deploy machine learning (e.g., age estimation models, behavioral signals) specifically where it adds value and reduces user friction, balancing it appropriately with traditional verification methods (e.g., identity checks, account history).
• Translate complex and constantly evolving global regulations into actionable product requirements, infrastructure, and rigorous compliance metrics.
• Lead the adoption of age assurance platforms across major Google product areas. Drive executive leadership alignment to secure buy-in, and ensure seamless integration across the company.
• Monitor and improve system accuracy, user friction, and model fairness, ensuring solutions perform equitably across global demographics.

Minimum qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in product management.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Legal, Policy, UX, and Research.
• Experience with trust & safety, privacy, identity verification, or regulatory compliance products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience defining and translating technical performance metrics into actionable product insights and executive-level reporting.
• Experience applying machine learning or AI within an enterprise context, specifically in domains requiring strict privacy, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex, multidisciplinary problems (technical, legal, and operational) into credible, scalable product solutions.
• Recognized expert in Digital Child Safety, Age Assurance methodologies, or Identity Systems.
• Proven track record of navigating extreme ambiguity and driving large-scale organizational alignment across boundaries and geographies.