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Minimum qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in engineering program management
- 2 years of experience as team lead
- Experience in product system development, phase gate approach, and NPI build management
- Ability to travel internationally up to 20% as required
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Experience with tablet product development
- Ability to drive several tasks at once and do whatever it takes to ship a product
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent team player and creative thinker who is able to lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors against plans
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.
The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.
Responsibilities
- Identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria, estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support the objectives within an organization.
- Provide guidance and feedback. Coach, mentor, and provide career development advise on direct reports.
- Define, organize, and manage the activities that lead to the outcomes of a project. Adjust levers (e.g., schedule, staffing, features) to deliver results on time.
- Monitor and communicate progress, risks, and mitigations.
