Leadership Technical Program Manager, Google Distributed Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in Technical Program Management.
• 5 years of experience in a leadership role with leading and managing reports.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in managing cross-functional or team projects.
• 5 years of experience in supervising.
• Experience in working with organizations including Vice President level stakeholders and global projects.
• Experience in working with Product Management and Engineers to drive progress on programs.
• Excellent technical acumen with the knowledge of software development.

About the job

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams. 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

• Own and drive programs cutting across multiple Google teams; able to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects with priorities.
• Be the trusted owner of the status of your projects/programs. Drive visibility on progress/dependencies/risks/issues to the executives and other stakeholders. Manage communication of progress/status with customer groups; own and nurture relationships between cross-functional teams.
• Bring in your technical expertise, your program management experience and your leadership skills to help the team improve and accelerate their execution.
• Build partnerships across Google and leverage your credibility and technical acumen to drive process improvements and efficiencies that lead to better quality and increased velocity.
• Engage with the product management and engineering leaders, and other Technical Program Manager (TPMs), to streamline processes, simplify execution, and bring tooling efficiencies, when needed.