Technical Program Manager, EHS NPI Product 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.

Safety, Ergonomics, and Compliance play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and usability of new product designs. While operational Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) ensures that workers don't get hurt and factories don't leak, Product Safety EHS ensures that the physical item shipped to a customer is legally permitted to exist, travel, and be disposed of in a given market.

As an EHS New Product Introduction (NPI) Product Safety Technical Program Manager, you will proactively review product designs to identify potential safety hazards or compliance concerns, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement effective mitigation measures. The primary goal is to minimize risk and enhance the level of product safety, as well as to ensure compliance to relevant worldwide safety standards, mitigating risks by design rather than retrofit at a later time.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$237,000 + 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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with hardware design teams to understand new project architectures. Ensure the appropriate safety standards and regulations are met and risks are mitigated.
• Provide EHS leadership for the introduction of new hardware products, implementing mitigations to ensure the highest level of safety possible. Evaluate new data center hardware for employee hazards to Servers, Racks, Tools and related infrastructure, coordinating equipment changes with cross-functional teams to enable risk mitigation across the product life cycle.
• Manage safety requirement integration into design standards, coordinate equipment reviews with cross-functional teams to perform job hazard analysis and compliance reviews.
• Review incidents with cross-functional teams to evaluate risk mitigation options for current and future deployed equipment. Manage and report risk and mitigation data to partner and stakeholder teams, contribute to commercialization strategy and implementation.
• Travel 15-25% as needed.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in product or hardware platform design safety.
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) safety.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and executive-level stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly understand new equipment, creative problem solving and ability to think outside the box.
• Applied project management skills; ability to create workable project plans with project scope, and execute on such plans.
• Data driven problem solving skills; ability to identify key issues, gather and analyze large complex data sets to support hypotheses and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong investigative, written and verbal communication, presentation, data quality troubleshooting and problem solving skills, outstanding collaboration, and project management skills.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.