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.
Workspace by Google Cloud is a cloud-based productivity suite that is revolutionizing the way people communicate and collaborate with one another. Our team is focused on delivering the tools that shape people’s experience at home, school and work.
As a Technical Program Manager, you will drive high-impact strategic initiatives at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and product development. You will partner directly with the global SRE organization and its corresponding Workspace Development teams to ensure our services remain resilient, scalable, and innovative. Beyond individual program delivery, you will serve as a Tech Lead (TL) for the Workspace SRE Technical Program Manager (TPgM) cohort, providing mentorship, setting operational standards, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Own and deliver deep technical Workspace wide projects partnering with product area wide stakeholders through executable roadmaps and plans. Bring an ownership mindset to sort priority inversion and alignment issues across teams to realize program goals.
- Drive measurable program performance gains correlated to execution velocity. Establish governance over prioritization decisions to ensure alignment with key performance indicators.
- Identify and improve operational processes such as launch reviews and planning by working with Cross-functional leaders.
- Ensure priorities and processes are communicated effectively and consistently and cascade to the broader organization including cross-functional groups.
- Lead a strategic planning framework for a complex program portfolio including direct influence over resourcing decisions, planning cadence, and planning stakeholders.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in technical program management.
- 10 years of experience managing executive-level relationships and cross-functional projects in an organization.
- Experience in data analysis and database querying using SQL.
Preferred qualifications:
- Ability to understand the complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identify connections, adopt different perspectives and respond to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
- Ability to work well across product areas, with excellent negotiation skills and deliver on joint objectives and key results.