Technical Program Manager, HR Engineering, Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in technical program management coordinating with large cross-organizational technical programs.
• Experience in helping teams measure and improve operational excellence, product excellence, and accessibility.
• Experience with human resources technology process/industry.
• Strong program management fundamentals on technical cross-functional projects (e.g., planning, execution, estimation, risk management, stakeholder management).
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical groups.
• Excellent problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with internal customers to define project requirements, plan detailed project timelines, and proactively manage risks, ensuring clear and consistent communication with all stakeholders.

You will leverage your talent for program management, mobilizing cross-functional teams, delivering solutions for scale and data-driven decision making to refine, launch and deploy solutions that improve our engineering teams’ productivity and drive release velocity improvements across our organization. These, in turn, drive success for People Operations and Google. You will also actively mentor and guide junior team members, sharing your knowledge and expertise to foster their professional growth.

Your passion, technical and business depth, and excellent organizational, communication, and people management skills, will enable you to build trust and effectively collaborate with a range of stakeholders.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000-$271,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive centralized planning and execution of complex, cross-functional, multi-pillar engineering efforts.
• Establish governance over prioritization decisions to ensure alignment with key success metrics and structures for execution across multiple organizations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with executive-level stakeholders (technical and non-technical) across teams, ensuring alignment and executive buy-in. Use judgment to build consensus, drive projects, schedule, plans, execution and communication across organizations.
• Define relevant project success metrics, track progress, and clearly communicate results to executives and project partners.
• Design and execute portfolio tracking and mechanics to enable informed decision making, clear prioritization and easy risk management across the portfolio.