Product Manager, Google Fonts

At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing, so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development.

One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users.

Join the Emmy-winning Google Fonts team and lead the technology powering 1.4 trillion monthly requests. Your work will shape Material Design typography, directly impacting all of Google’s 1 Billion+ Daily Active User (DAU) products, 50% of the desktop web, and 45% of the mobile web.

As Product Manager, you will support typography for the AI era—uniting expert design with AI-driven products like Gemini and Workspace. You will guide the evolution of 1,900+ fonts and 4,500+ icons, oversee migrations to Rust, and teach foundational AI models professional typographic rules. Owning a $3.8M+ Operational Expenditure (OpEx) portfolio, you will partner with executives to prove how expressive typography accelerates product Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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: $163000 - $237000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional partners with deep type-design expertise to build an AI-ready infrastructure and modern brand fonts that scale across Google's ecosystem.
• Drive the overarching product strategy to build typographic intelligence into foundational AI programs like Gemini, enabling designers and developers to create cohesive, desirable products.
• Align roadmaps and land advanced typographic innovations with major internal partners utilizing Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) data to optimize customer strategies.
• Partner with Material Design to drive adoption of Google Sans Flex and Google Symbols, while defining a data-driven 2027 internationalization roadmap to expand language support.
• Modernize the open-source text stack by migrating from legacy C++ to memory-safe Rust, pioneering Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) web standards, and delivering automated evaluations for AI-generated content.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical product management or a similar role leading developer-facing or designer-facing platform infrastructure.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch (e.g., ideation to execution, end-to-end, 0 to 1, etc.).
• Experience with the AI/ML product development life-cycle.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business related field.
• 2 years of experience in software development or engineering.
• 2 years of experience working cross-functionally with engineering, UX/UI, sales finance, and other stakeholders.
• Experience in typography, design systems, visual identity branding, or digital asset delivery protocols.

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