Technical Program Manager, Global Sustainability

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), carbon footprints, or quantification of environmental attributes (for products and services).
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience with both consequential and attributional methodologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• MSc education or equivalent experience in environmental science or engineering, or equivalent degree (ecology, biology, economics), or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience developing new accounting methodologies using life cycle management thinking.
• Experience gathering data to complete life cycle assessments (LCAs).
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment with a focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration.

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.

In this role, you will quantify Google's product related emissions reductions and environmental benefits. You will tailor our methodology for specific products in collaboration with the relevant teams and apply your Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) experience to measure product environmental impacts. You will also represent Google in external technical groups focused on LCA methodology definition.

The Global Sustainability team enables Google to build a more sustainable future for everyone by driving strategy and solutions. We drive the development and implementation of Google’s global sustainability strategy to further empower action, ensure alignment and prioritization, identify leadership opportunities, and mitigate risks. We drive sustainability strategy and programs on carbon, circular economy, water, product integration, reporting, and employee engagement, while serving as a sustainability leadership advocate internally and externally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$229,000 + 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

• Partner with Google product areas and Global Sustainability Teams (GST) leadership, serve as a life-cycle assessment expert to provide expert guidance and direction in the quantification of environmental product impacts, positive enabling impacts and operational product impacts.
  
• Implement greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting methodologies to quantify the impact that our product sustainability solutions have, based on attributional and consequential life cycle assessment methodologies.
  
• Partner with Google product areas and product teams to develop the key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics and data pipelines to quantify product environmental impact, develop product case studies with product impacts and benefits data and develop tracking dashboards and automated reporting platforms.
  
• Track external technical standards developments.
  
• Participate in industry-wide technical working groups defining accounting methodologies and standards. Publish thought leadership pieces on Google’s approach to product benefit and impacts quantification.