Technical Program Manager II, Software Engineering, Search

2 Months ago • 2-4 Years • Product Management • Undisclosed

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Job Description

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. In this role, you will be responsible for formulating the query, providing users with great suggestions. You will have the opportunity to make Google a visual product by changing how users use Google and how they get their answers. You will find great product results to users across multiple verticals (Shopping, homegoods, food) and as users have many options it's critical that you provide high quality results. 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. You will be responsible for formulating the query, providing users with great suggestions. You will have the opportunity to make Google a visual product by changing how users use Google and how they get their answers. You will find great product results to users across multiple verticals (Shopping, homegoods, food) and as users have many options it's critical that you provide high quality results.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 2 years of experience managing IT projects or teams
  • Experience with software development
  • Experience managing programs spanning multiple engineering teams
  • Ability to use technical judgment to solve software engineering challenges
  • Ability to take accountability and ownership
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Certification in Scrum Master, Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent
  • 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects
  • Experience working in a multi-stakeholder environment of Engineering, Product and Operation teams

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience managing IT projects or teams.
  • Experience with software development and managing execution of programs that span multiple engineering teams.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certification in Scrum Master, Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent.
  • 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  • Experience working in a multi-stakeholder environment of Engineering, Product and Operation teams.
  • Ability to use technical judgment to solve software engineering challenges involving bug triage, source control, continuous integration, etc.
  • Ability to take accountability and ownership, you are an owner in this, not just a facilitator.
  • Excellent communication skills.

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.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

In this role, you will be responsible for formulating the query, providing users with great suggestions. You will have the opportunity to make Google a visual product by changing how users use Google and how they get their answers. You will find great product results to users across multiple verticals (Shopping, homegoods, food) and as users have many options it's critical that you provide high quality results.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with all aspects of the development process from understanding success definition, requirements, to design, development, deployment readiness, and measurement. 
  • Manage engineering projects for Suggest and Lens, collaborate with Product and Engineering teams.
    Understand technical subjects and communicate with Engineering teams to bring clarity for cross-functional projects with vague requirements.
  • Plan projects, track and execute projects as well as mitigate risk and deliver on time.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive processes and exercise technical and product judgment to resolve project issues speeding up infrastructure and feature planning, analysis and development.
  • Identify, communicate, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders within one or more teams to drive impact and work toward mutual goals.
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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

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