Senior Technical Program Manager, Ads Privacy and Safety

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Technical Program Manager focused on Security and Privacy, you will use technical expertise to develop scalable solutions delivering user privacy improvements, organizational compliance, and high-velocity engineering operations. You collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, scale processes, and guide the technical direction of initiatives. By establishing rigorous standards, you model privacy excellence as an integral component of the engineering lifecycle. You advocate the program management community through mentorship of junior program managers, driving leadership standards and talent sustainability. You lead programmatic harmonization for privacy reviews across multiple Ads pillars, maximizing efficiencies within the current Privacy team.

In this role, you define a technical program strategy for privacy engineering across product areas. You will partner with product management and engineering leadership to understand long-term roadmaps, anticipating program needs that enable secure business growth. To excel, you bring a track record of delivering complex infrastructure programs under tight regulatory frameworks. You translate ambiguous compliance requirements into concrete technical specifications that engineering teams execute, safeguarding user trust while accelerating product velocity at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,000-$278,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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

• Orchestrate complex, cross-functional privacy strategy across multiple product areas such as the Ads Privacy Working Group (PWG) Lead, securing critical alignment from executive stakeholders.
• Develop defensible plans for feature and capability releases, actively tracking progress while identifying, communicating, and mitigating key program risks.
• Optimize comprehensive measurement frameworks and success metrics to evaluate privacy compliance, providing executive leadership with strategic visibility and data-driven insights.
• Guide teams through complex policy shifts, AI adoption, and business transformations, representing the organization in leadership forums with recommended paths forward.
• Advocate the strategic application of AI tooling to automate, scale, and transform Ads PWG operations, driving massive organizational efficiency.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience delivering consumer or enterprise software.

Preferred qualifications:

• Certificate in one or more of the following (e.g., CIPT, CIPM, or CIPP).
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in privacy program ownership and management.
  

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year