Senior Technical Program Manager

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.

Supercharge human creativity, productivity, and communication with AI (including Generative AI) across Communication and Time Management products in Workspace. We are a Applied AI team working closely with Gmail, Chat, Calendar and Tasks team to reimagine these products from the ground up for the Agentic AI era.

In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the AI user experience, working across a range of components in the stack, including GenAI models, quality, cost, evaluation and more. If you have a strong technical background and thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments, this is your chance to make a significant impact on the future of AI.

AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products— Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.

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

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and resource stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
• Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and which affect multiple teams.
• Own and guide high-impact AI projects from requirements through launch, including defining requirements, identifying dependencies, managing project schedules, and performing risk management.
• Identify trends and themes among project and team issues, and drive root-cause analysis with the engineering, product, and UX teams.
• Own and enable teams to make tradeoff decisions on quality, cost and latency and facilitate continuous quality hillclimbing.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• 2 years of experience in compliance or risk management.
• Experience working on or with teams in the AI/ML, or algorithms domain.
• Experience in software development workflows (code review, testing) and define quality metrics for automated systems.
• Experience leading the end-to-end delivery and technical strategy for mobile and web applications, ensuring architectural alignment across.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Solid software development project management experience, ability to define projects and execute within timelines and with multiple stakeholders, and proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Demonstrated track record of strategic thinking and creative problem solving at a high level.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver projects on time and to budget, and to effectively operate with high energy and flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment.
• Ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally and with management at all levels.
• Strong technical, problem-solving and quantitative skills.