Technical Program Manager, AI and Cloud Expansion, Scalable Architecture and NPI

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.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is changing the way the world uses cloud computing by exposing infrastructure and solutions to companies of all sizes, everywhere. The Cloud Foundations (CF) Organization is a GCP product area with a mission to delight customers through the world’s most innovative and trusted cloud infrastructure and solutions, powered by AI.

This role is part of the AI and Cloud Expansion Technical Program Management team, a cross-functional team working closely with data center, capacity, services, and other product and engineering teams, as well as with customers and business teams to deliver and drive scale and efficiency of AI and Cloud expansion programs globally.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $192000 - $279000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of large, complex, cross-cutting Cloud Expansion programs, ensuring accurate status tracking and systematic risk mitigation.
• Identify and drive strategic initiatives to improve the scale and speed of cloud expansion by 10, including securing investment decisions.
• Partner closely with senior product and engineering leadership to align priorities and meet core business objectives.
• Orchestrate collaboration across cross-functional stakeholders, governing milestone setting, reporting, and problem resolution.
• Design processes and tooling to reduce engineering toil while effectively managing and resolving high-level escalations.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Ability to lead complex infrastructure programs and exercise technical judgement across organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage senior executive relationships.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, 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