Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Search Intelligence
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. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a highly credible thought leader within Google and industry on the subject matter domain of the respective organization.
- Establish a reliable and visible cadence for portfolio reviews, decision making, prioritization, and resource management, whereby improvements are measurable and the impact can be felt organization-wide. For example, effective (re)deployment of machine and people resources should lead to efficiency and utilization gains, thus mapping to the concept of Resource Stewardship.
- Drive measurable program performance gains correlated to execution velocity. Establish governance over prioritization decisions to ensure alignment with key performance indicators.
- Act as a change advocate, responsible for initiating and leading multiple organizations through pivots needed to address shifts in business trends and priorities.
- Lead planning framework for a program portfolio including direct influence over resourcing decisions, planning cadence, and planning stakeholders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Industry
Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
