Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Tel Aviv, Israel; Munich, Germany.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in program management.
- 7 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
- Experience directing a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers, with a focus on portfolio oversight and talent development.
- Experience launching features to consumers through frontend and backend platform development.
- Track record of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders across various functions, especially in situations with little authority and considerable ambiguity.
- Ability to function as a strategic partner to executive leadership to effectively manage and scale delivery.
- Ability to define and operationalize sophisticated operating models that measurably increase efficiency and effectiveness in outcome delivery.
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.
This leadership role is responsible for driving the strategic direction and operational maturity of a distributed, cross-functional organization.
In this role, you will balance complex program delivery with the long-term evolution of the ecosystem. This position requires a unique blend of organizational design and technical diplomacy, as you will be responsible for delivery of key Google and Code wide objectives while ensuring that the underlying team structures are resilient enough to support large-scale growth. You are expected to act as a team multiplier, identifying systemic bottlenecks before they impact delivery and fostering a culture of excellence, data-driven execution across a global footprint.
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
- Manage and mentor a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers, including executive-level individual contributors.
- Design and implement operating models to streamline outcome delivery. Move beyond execution to refine how the organization functions to maximize efficiency.
- Partner with leaders to manage the continued growth of the ecosystem.
- Drive a distributed cross-functional (XFN) organization responsible for Core and Google-level Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
- Lead complex programs with authority, balancing resourcing, prioritization, and XFN decision-making.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
