Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Business Platform

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical projects or program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing and reviewing technical requirements, design documents, the Product Life Cycle processes, bug triage, setting technical goals and resolving technical trade-offs between teams.
• Experience working cross-functionally and managing multiple technical programs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to produce documents that communicate strategy, planning, risks, program dependencies, and roll-out planning to audiences across levels.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

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

• Manage a program portfolio in an fluid environment.
• Work cross-functionally with a geographically distributed team to understand, implement and deploy ordering platform solutions.
• Establish an operations measurement framework for data quality and governance and develop and execute a strategy.
• Anticipate change management requirements that are required by program stakeholders.
• Support the team with all required elements of project planning and delivery, using your knowledge of project methodologies including tools and techniques. Design and deliver improved program communication plans including executive and stakeholder communications.