Technical Program Manager, Pixel Phone Software

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.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Google welcomes people with disabilities.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in mobile devices, Hardware (HW)/Software (SW)/embedded software and Android software development.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with program management for projects that span multiple teams in geographically disparate locations.
• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle and experience commercializing technical product launches; comfortable conversing on technical topics and products.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex and large scale software projects. Track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders. Engage and energize the project teams to achieve dynamic goals.
• Remove obstacles to drive momentum, progress and results. Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities.
• Understand technical implementation and propose technical alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be highly effective. Develop broad domain and technical knowledge.
• Work closely with leads and partners to ensure software and roadmap feature alignment for current and future programs.
• Drive build, integration and manage regressions. Anticipate risks and proactively mitigate them and shipping software for consumer hardware.