Technical Program Manager, Chrome Accessibility

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and User Experience (UX) designers or researchers in executing projects and programs from concept to launch.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional and cross product areas projects.
• Experience as a software developer or technical lead.
• Familiarity with developing for the open web, including web standards bodies and Chromium.
• Ability to be comfortably navigating through ambiguity and dynamic conditions.
• Excellent investigative, problem-solving, and influencing 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.

As a Chrome Technical Program Manager, you will support the Chrome Accessibility team. You will lead, organize, and manage projects and programs, in collaboration with Engineering, Product, Analysts, and Marketing leads.Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and UX designers/researchers in executing projects and programs from concept to launch - including planning, tracking progress, identifying and resolving issues, and managing dependencies.
• Design and roll-out processes and tools to increase the velocity of engineering teams, and the quality of product launches.
• Provide program management leadership for the portfolio of program priorities; and establish effective partnerships with engineering, product, and UX leads.
• Deliver continuous and aimed transparency to keep core team members aligned, and stakeholders informed.
• Leverage an understanding of feature development to identify and build new operational improvements and processes.