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Technical Program Manager, Google Network Technology

Technical Program Manager, Google Network Technology

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Product Management

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Job Description

As a Technical Program Manager at Google's Network Technology team, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from initiation to completion. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements, manage project schedules, mitigate risks, and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams. You'll need to manage competing priorities, track deliverables, and optimize project velocity. The role involves working with software and network engineers, and requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead programs at a global scale. This position is crucial for ensuring the reliable and efficient operation of Google's global network infrastructure.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
5+ years program management experience
Technical project management expertise
Cross-functional team collaboration
Global program leadership

Good to have:

Network data/software design experience
Vendor management and business reviews
Experience with global network deployments

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in program management.
Experience managing projects in a technical/software engineering environment.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with one or more of the following: network data, control and management plane software design, or global network deployments.
Experience managing technical vendors and leading quarterly business reviews.
Ability to lead programs at a global level involving many teams.
Ability to work as a member of a cross-functional team of software engineers, network engineers, and various other groups.
Ability to manage competing priorities without loss of velocity or efficiency.
Excellent organizational, project management, analysis, and 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.

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.

Responsibilities

Deliver cross-functional projects/programs and ensure they provide value to customers.
Work with core teams to develop and articulate strategy and tactical plans, develop road-maps, engage teams and engineers, set the pace for development, deployment, and delivery of software systems and infrastructure.
Initiate new programs and be the catalyst for gaining support and driving them through completion, align team members and stakeholders, and communicate widely and transparently.
Drive project delivery, technology reviews, guide technical proposals, and build consensus amongst cross-functional teams.
Set project/program success criteria, create measurable milestones, track deliverables and deliver customer value incrementally, measure, analyze, and optimize to improve velocity, quality, and efficiency of projects.

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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.