Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with the end-to-end software development life cycle (e.g., build, test, and release).
- Experience working in a technical environment on a software engineering team.
- Experience with the consumer electronics, device software, release management, and working with external partners (e.g., SoC vendor).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience creating, analyzing, and reporting metrics for all aspects of project and program management including development, testing, bugs, issues, etc.
- Experience in managing software engineering programs.
- Experience in applying project management techniques, with excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and investigative skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders across businesses, leadership, and teams.
About the job:
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.
Google Home is building product experiences for our users, in pursuit of Google Home’s mission to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. A critical function towards delivering on our mission within Home Software is the Technical Program Management (TPM) function.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities:
- Drive defining, costing, planning, tracking, and executing complex programs across engineering and cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with Program Managers, Software Engineers, and cross-functional teams to build end-to-end features and manage technical dependencies across the stack.
- Drive alignment across teams, organizations to reach consensus on product direction, north-star metrics, engineering feasibility, etc.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers and exercise technical and product acumen to cost projects, manage schedules, and resolve project issues.
- Manage a collection of technical projects, drive a multi-quarter roadmap, and communicate to a complex web of executive stakeholders.
