Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in solutions architecture related roles in consumer products.
Preferred qualifications:
• 5 years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Experience managing strategic projects with transformational or organizational impact across multiple verticals, industries, or geographical areas.
• Ability to lead in project efficiency, identifying, developing, and implementing process improvements to support team scalability and growth.
• Ability to manage ambiguous strategic and operational programs with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, and build relationships to achieve broader organizational goals.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will work with hardware and software engineers, product managers, ODMs, or CMs to get products built, tested, and released on time. You'll be responsible for identifying and managing risks, making decisions about quality, and managing production.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
• Manage a portfolio of projects, and be responsible for overall program strategy, operating model and program development.
• Manage program scoping, planning, creating and managing integrated schedules, setting milestones, and program tracking.
• Use leadership, product, and technical knowledge to drive program delivery, working with engineering, product management, UX, and other partner teams.
• Navigate multiple work-streams, functional and technical concepts, and conversations across different areas and stakeholders to drive collaboration.
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of Engineers.
