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Rose Yao

Vice President Of Product Management at Google

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Rose Yao is the VP of Product at Google, with a background that includes notable roles at Facebook and Microsoft. She has demonstrated expertise in product management and software engineering, with a strong focus on mobile applications and user experience design.

Work Experience 

  • Vice President Of Product Management

    2017 - Current

    May 2023 to present Google search - verticals and international Giving people new reasons to come to search. April 2020 to May 2023 Google Nest and Pixel tablet https://store.google.com/us/category/google_nest Building the helpful home that takes care of the people in it and the world around it. Encompassing our wifi, speaker, hub, chromecast, thermostat, camera devices and the platform/apps that bring it all together. July 2017- April 2020 Google Maps Platform: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ Building a Google Maps business that helps the people navigate, explore, and get stuff done in the world.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Product Advisor/Consultant

    2016 - 2017

    I'm inspired by products that change the way people interact with each other and the teams that believe in them. Please contact me if you want to build something together.

  • VP Product

    2015 - 2016

    Athos creates products that combine stylish workout gear with technology to give help people reach their fitness goals. As VP of product, I'm responsible for end to end product strategy and execution.

The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.

Raised $50,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felix Capital, Social Capital, True Ventures, DCM Ventures and MAS Holdings.

  • Group Product Manager

    2010 - 2015

    Photos (2013 - March, 2015) Product lead for Facebook photos, helping users share and discover great photo stories from their friends. Built and manage the PM team as well as overall strategy/execution. Including creative labs projects: Slingshot and Moments Opengraph and Timeline (2012-2013) Built a PM team on Opengraph focused on user facing experiences with FB apps (newsfeed/timeline/permissions/etc) Team launched various improvements to opengraph newsfeed stories, new permissions dialogs, and updated version of Timeline in early 2013 - Launch blog: http://newsroom.fb.com/News/584/Improvements-to-Timeline, - Developer conference on opengraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7dEXmvcSgU) FB Home (2011-2012) PM on FB Home for early iteration of the product, helped form key concepts and build early prototypes including dynamic home screen with feed stories and seamless integration with sms and fb messages. FB mobile (2010 - 2011) Helped launched new touch site and revamped feed across all platforms.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

  • Senior Product Manager

    2005 - 2010

    Homepages - iGoogle (2007-2010) Lead PM on team of ~50 engineers with 2 direct reports in MTV and 2 dotted line reports in international offices. Work closely with engineering director, product VPs, and other stakeholders on strategy to grow the product and the team. Launched redesign of iGoogle including: UI update, chat integration,opensocial integration (made iGoogle the first social homepage). Mac client software (2006-2007) Tasked with getting all Google software onto Mac platform. Worked with a team of ~20 engineers to launch 7 new products/APIs for the Mac in less than a year. These products include: Google Desktop, Google Gadgets, Google Updater, Picasa Uploader, Google Notifier, MacFUSE, and GDATA APIs in Objective C. Gmail (2005-2006) Doubled the number of Gmail users during my time on the team. Launched 8 frontend features, new Gmail delivery and abuse infrastructure, and Gmail in Hebrew/Arabic.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Software Engineer in Test Intern

    2004 - 2004

    Outlook Programmability Designed and implemented graphical tool to generate C# Outlook Object Model code and wrote automation scripts for Better Outlook Object Model.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2000 - 2003

    Embedded Reasoning Institute Intern Developed a multi-agent system to improve performance of clusters. College Cyber Defender Intern Developed software for monitoring network traffic. Coordinated interaction between database and java graphical interface and redesigned internal webpage.

Sandia is a conducts research and development into the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons.

Raised $4,400,000.00 from US Department of Energy, US Department of Energy, ARPA-E and US Department of Energy.

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