VP, Workspace Drive

The application window will be open until at least April 22, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in engineering leadership.
• 5 years of experience in the integration of LLMs.
• 3 years of experience architecting and deploying GenAI-driven features within global consumer-facing products.
• Experience leading globally-dispersed engineering teams of 300+.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering.
• Understanding of the commercial storage market and competitive landscape.
• Ability to influence and partner across organizational boundaries.
• Expertise in deploying Agentic AI workflows and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures at petabyte scale, ensuring high-availability infrastructure while maintaining rigorous data privacy and compliance standards in an AI-first environment.
• Demonstrated success partnering with AI Research teams to translate sophisticated, cutting-edge findings into scalable, deployable, and impactful AI-enabled product features for a very large platform.

About The Job As the VP of Engineering for Workspace Drive, you will lead an organization responsible for a product that serves over 2 billion users globally. Drive is at a pivotal inflection point, evolving from a storage solution into a central, AI-powered repository for the future of work. You will oversee a high-performing team that is currently excelling; your primary focus will be to accelerate innovation this includes the successful rollout of transformative AI initiatives. Beyond technical innovation, you will drive our commercial strategy to position Drive as a premier pure-play storage competitor in the enterprise market.

You will bring a "user-first" mindset to an enterprise-scale product. While the enterprise foundations of regionalization and storage are critical, this role will navigate a rapidly changing landscape of new AI modalities.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary for this full-time position is $550,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a global engineering organization, fostering a culture of innovation among senior leadership.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for Drive’s AI transformation.
• Partner with product and sales to accelerate Drive’s commercial subscription growth, building a competitive pure-play storage offering for the enterprise market.
• Maintain the high performance of a 2-billion-user platform while evolving its architecture to support new AI modalities and cloud-to-desktop integration.
• Cultivate a high-performing team and foster enhanced collaborative relationships with GDM teams to demonstrably improve the velocity and overall quality of product delivery.

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