Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Product Security, Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in technical program management with working on cross-functional programs.
• 7 years of experience in leadership role.
• Experience in security domain and infrastructure systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in leading teams within technical program management or a related role.
• Experience with security in one or more of the following domains: vulnerability management, application security, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) model access or integrity, or distributed infrastructures.

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. 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.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and drive the multi-year goal and roadmap for advanced security programs, ensuring alignment with company-wide objectives, anticipating emerging threats, and collaborating with executive leadership on security priorities.
• Apply and expand the technical expertise to Google's technology stack and security landscape to investigate technical issues, define their scope, conduct research, implement remediation strategies, and drive process enhancements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align priorities and ensure efficient execution. Identify and address bottlenecks, priority inversions, resourcing issues, and other blockers.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration and alignment to achieve business goals. Remove roadblocks, establish success metrics, and ensure the team delivers results.
• Articulate portfolio status, risks, and mitigation strategies to technical and non-technical audiences. Represent Assurance Engineering in leadership forums, leading cross-team and cross-product area collaboration, strategy development, and program execution.