Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Global Networking Technology

Google LLC•Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

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 part of the Global Networking Technology (GNT) team, you will unleash your leadership skills and your significant talents for program management, mobilizing cross functional teams, delivering solutions for scale and data-driven decision making, to launch and take to market solutions that accelerate our customers success in the cloud. Your passion, technical and business depth, and excellent organizational, communication skills will inspire our teams and rapidly establish trust amongst a set of stakeholders and customers. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

10 years of experience managing cross-functional team projects.
Understanding of complex relationship between the organization and its environment, identifies connections, adopts different perspectives and responds to changing circumstances in a strategic way.
Ability to be comfortable with changing specifications or standards, and work through ambiguity.
Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, imports and exports talent and ideas to achieve a broader organizational goal.
Excellent problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills that drive executional impact at scale.

Responsibilities

Set direction and execution of organizational direction for broad, cross-organization projects across the Global Networking Technology team.
Partner closely with executive leadership engineering and product managers and to ensure Technical Program Management (TPgM) alignment with engineering and product priorities.
Provide oversight of delivery across the complete portfolio of networking initiatives.
Lead and inspire an organization of technical program managers with ownership mindset, driving alignment amongst software engineering, network engineering, and partner organizations spanning technical infrastructure.
Lead Technical Program Management groups to streamline processes, simplify execution, manage top programs and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), release on time, bring tooling efficiencies and help teams in execution.

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