Technical Program Manager III, Infrastructure Storage, Technical Infrastructure

Google•New York, NY

4h•$156,000 - $229,000

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs. Join the Infrastructure Storage team, a core pillar of Google's AI2 organization responsible for the storage infrastructure underpinning all Google services, including Google Cloud and YouTube. As a Technical Program Manager, you will utilize your strong background in software architecture and distributed systems to translate technical requirements into actionable business goals. This role requires a high degree of excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate effectively across engineering and executive teams. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in program management.
Experience with software architecture and distributed systems.
Experience with cloud storage infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud) or working within hyperscaler environments.

Nice To Haves

5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
Experience working with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams or a background in SRE Technical Program Management.
Familiarity with hardware architecture within hyperscale storage or compute environments.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
Prioritize program goals, understand and translate other stakeholders’ needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
Define the scope of projects and develop, execute, or manage project plans for supported programs.
Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
Identify, communicate, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders within one or more teams to drive impact and work toward mutual goals. Build, maintain and enhance business, operational, and management dashboards.