Christopher Phillips

About Christopher Phillips

Chris Phillips is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience, currently serving as VP & General Manager of Geo at Google, leading Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View, and Google Maps Platform. In addition, Chris serves as the General Manager of Education at Google, overseeing the product and go-to-market strategy for Google’s full suite of Education products offered to students, educators, and institutions worldwide. Before Google, he was Chief Product & Technology Officer and EVP at SiriusXM & Pandora, joining SiriusXM through the Pandora acquisition in 2019, where he had been Chief Product Officer & EVP Engineering since 2017, and initially Chief Product Officer since 2014.Earlier, Chris was a product and design executive at Amazon.com, overseeing Amazon Music. He spent almost 8 years at Intuit in various product strategy and management roles, including Director of Product Strategy for the Global Business Division, Director of Product Management for Intuit Real Estate Solutions, and Director of QuickBooks for Apple Mac OS and iOS. Before Intuit, he was VP of Product Management at Workspeed (acquired by MRI) and consulted at Accenture. He holds a BS in Business Administration from The Ohio State University\'s Max M. Fisher College of Business.Chris has a proven track record of driving profitable revenue growth by incubating and scaling new product offerings, as well as operating and innovating existing product portfolios. He has led the definition of product vision, roadmaps, and operations, resulting in increased revenue and customer engagement. His experience includes creating new products, international expansion, introducing new business models and monetization methods, and entering new B2C and B2B customer segments. Chris excels at leveraging customer insights and data to drive vision and delivery, fostering cohesive partnerships to fuel successful business, product, and technology ecosystems. He is passionate about developing leaders and teams.Chris actively seeks opportunities to create experiences customers love, solve challenging customer, technology, and business problems, lead and introduce game-changing products at scale, and foster creativity, inclusion, and inspiration.

Experience

1. VP & General Manager, Geo and Education at Google

   Google

   Oct 2025 — Present

   Chris leads Google\'s global Geo portfolio, including Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View, and Google Maps Platform. He has propelled the Geo team to transform place exploration and navigation. In addition to his role leading Google’s global Geo portfolio, Chris also leads Google’s Education product and go-to-market strategy, including learning solutions like Google Classroom and the full suite of Google Education products offered to students, educators and institutions worldwide.

Education

• The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

  BSBA, Finance

Skills

• Product Development
• Product Management
• Segmentation
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Enterprise Software
• Crm
• Leadership
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• User Experience
• Business Strategy
• Product Marketing
• Business Modeling
• Mobile Devices
• Saas