The Photos' Create team's goal is to empower users with simple tools to express themselves creatively by building the photo, video, and movie editors in Google Photos, and embarking on new journeys to allow users to create and edit their content. The team focuses on bringing Google’s generative media models and computational photography technologies to Photos and delivering a reliable and delightful editing experience for Photos’ 1.5 billion users.
Requirements
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 2 years of experience with iOS or Android application development.
- 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience leading teams in image and video editing, media consumption, or creative applications.
- Experience building successful consumer features and bringing them to market quickly - from prototyping to productionization.
- Experience developing cross-functional and cross-team partnerships.
- Experience in team growth with clear mentorship and coaching.
Responsibilities
- Manage an organization of Android and iOS developers with an opportunity to grow the team in the future while shaping our long-term technical strategy: balance scalability, latency, and feature quality while developing the next generation of leaders within Photos.
- Set the team’s goal and strategy to grow editing usage and engagement across Google Photos’ user base, bringing the best of Photos’ editors to users around the world.
- Build growth loops between editing and creativity, helping to understand engagement drivers and product opportunities.
- Develop and maintain meaningful relationships with Photos’ product, UX, and infrastructure teams - along with Research groups across Google.
- Work across these groups to bring editing features to core surfaces in the Google Photos app.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and initiate cross-Photos and cross-Google partnerships to develop new features to beautify users’ libraries.
- enable your team to develop, launch, and iterate on the next generation of image effects and creation in the Google Photos app, leveraging Google's latest models.
Other
- 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $197,000-$291,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- You will be an exceptional communicator, highly pragmatic, and excited to be building alongside the team.
- Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA
