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.
The Google Compute Engine (GCE) Node team empowers our customers with a comprehensive suite of bare-metal and virtual machine (VM) instances. These offerings harness the latest advancements in Central Processing Unit (CPU) (x86/Advanced RISC Machines [ARM]), Storage, Network, and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)/Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) virtualization. All of this is backed by security, reliability, and performance to drive innovation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), enterprise, and cloud-native landscapes.
In this role, you will drive Google-wide goals and innovation across dimensions including Security, Reliability, Performance, Observability, Manageability, Compliance, On-demand capacity, and scaling to help customers build their businesses on top of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide the required project management, cross-functional coordination, inter-team and intra-team communications, and leadership engagement to deliver outstanding program outcomes.
- Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and other engineering teams to guide high-quality products and features through the product life-cycle (e.g., scope, develop, build, test, and release on time).
- Manage project schedules, identify possible issues, and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders and leadership.
- Take responsibility for release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a changing environment.
- Lead several technical programs for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), setting priorities for products and engineering, leading cross-functional teams to take products to market, ensuring success metrics are informing future efforts, and quickly fine-tuning the program as needed.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in managing projects spanning cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience establishing systems that continuously improve business processes, products, or services through the measurement of performance, progress, and success metrics.
- Experience planning, scoping, and taking responsibility for technical projects and driving them to completion through execution and governance.
- Experience in collaborating, team building, and delivering solutions within changing environments.