Leadership Technical Program Manager, Google Meet

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of technical program management work experience.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• 5 years of supervisory experience.

About the job

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.

Google Meet has the mission to help consumers, educators, small businesses, Googlers, and companies leverage the power of videoconferencing to enhance their connections with friends, classmates, and co-workers.

The Foundation team is focused on providing audio and video media, stunning reliability, security, and a setup enabling natural communications - like being in the same room.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Implement communications standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications.
• Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
• Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making. Ensure governance structure effectively exposes and mitigates dependencies.
• Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and which affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it's used effectively.
• Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that target high business impact for the organization and product area.