Manufacturing Test Engineering Technical Program Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management, managing suppliers and partners in implementing test requirements.
• 3 years of leadership experience including people management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  
• Ability to develop leadership, quantitative reasoning, problem-solving and creativity 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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As a Test Technical Program Manager, you will lead the design and execution of manufacturing test processes for Google’s Data Center products. You will work closely with vendors to ensure test procedures are consistent and controlled, and collaborate with Design Engineering to define infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your role ensures all components integrate seamlessly, supporting reliable and efficient system performance.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Drive Test Technical Program Management for Machine Learning (ML) New Product Introduction (NPIs) and plan test development projects across the ML portfolio of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) products.
• Execute manufacturing test development activities and manage dependencies across internal teams and external partners to drive initiatives.
• Manage procurement, budgeting, scheduling and risk for ML test development projects while ensuring alignment with NPI timelines and track and report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards to stakeholders.
• Lead manufacturing test teams in planning, developing and deploying test solutions to enable high-volume production.
• Manage executive stakeholders communication and engagement and lead cross-functional, cross-vertical initiatives to enable test process standardization, optimization or transformation.