Technical Program Manager, Central Engineering Operations, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience with standing up new programs or transforming existing programs through scaling.
• Experience with process design, implementation and improvement.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 3 years of experience in leading planning, tracking, operational excellence for engineering organizations with more than 100 team members.
• Ability to develop effective cross-organization communication strategies and influence a range of audiences, including C-Level executives and cross-funtional virtual teams.

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.

Central Engineering Operations (CEO) defines and operates centralized mechanisms that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of GCP’s Product Life-cycle. Within CEO, the Cross-GM Engineering Operation (EngOps) team focuses on reducing the cost and cycle time of delivering mission critical, cross-GCP/TI programs like Horizontals, and Code Yellows.

The mission of this Platformization Technical Program Manger is to achieve these goals by increasing GCP/TI adoption of central platforms like CCFE, API Proxy, Pod Spanner.

The Platformization TPM will drive increased platform adoption by designing and operating mechanisms to increase platform awareness, remove barriers to platform adoption, and formalize platformization as a core part of GCP/TI’s engineering and planning processes.

This role will be part of the Cross-GM EngOps team, integrating new mechanisms into existing ones like program intake, program prioritization, semester planning, and roadmap enablement.

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.

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

• Design and operate central mechanisms for capturing, prioritizing, and communicating feature requests from Horizontal program owners and product owners to Platform owners in GCP/TI and Core.
• Partner with platform teams to publish and regularly update their platform roadmaps
• Create, launch, and maintain a platform catalog (e.g., a single source of truth for platform capabilities, roadmaps, and onboarding documentation for program owners and Technical Leads (TLs)).
• Improve platform awareness and adoption via  enablement/communications effort, such as a GCP Platforms TL Summit. 
• Develop and execute strategies to drive mechanism adoption and ongoing improvement.