Lead Help guide Technical Program Manager, Software Development, gTech
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 5 years of experience in a leadership role.
- Experience with the software development life cycle.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in building and leading teams while navigating organizational changes.
- Experience in leading teams to deliver cross-functional technical projects and programs with multiple stakeholders in a changing environment.
- Experience in navigating ambiguity, identifying and mitigating risks, and managing dependencies.
- Ability to influence, build strong cross-functional partnerships, and drive consensus in executive settings.
- Excellent communication, presentation and teamwork skills, with the ability to articulate topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent technical judgment and leadership across organizational and team boundaries.
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.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of Technical Program Managers, fostering a culture of bias for action, excellent execution and continuous learning to deliver the AI help guide products and platform improvements.
- Oversee the execution of the portfolio, translating business goals and high level roadmaps into clear, actionable plans.
- Serve as a trusted partner and advisor to Engineering, Product Management, and UX Directors/VPs; negotiate priorities and drive consensus on cross-functional trade-offs.
- Institute a systematic framework for managing program health and risk across the portfolio; proactively identify and mitigate high-level technical, safety, and regulatory risks associated with deploying Generative AI.
- Define and own the program’s success metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); utilize data to monitor portfolio health, analyze team velocity, and report on impact to executive leadership. Apply technical judgment to guide the team through dependency management.
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