Technical Program Manager, Pixel Hardware
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with consumer hardware and cross-functional teams, including engineering, industrial/product design in module development, vendor development/management.
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of experience with shipping high-volume and high-quality products in consumer electronics or other devices.
- Experience with managing functional engineering teams and working with OEM partners.
- Experience in device/hardware manufacturing, product design (mechanical), device management and channel/partner ecosystem.
- Knowledge of consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations, and working with contract manufacturers.
- Knowledge of consumer hardware carrier engineering process, reply RFx assessments, certification/pre-cert, lab entry preparations.
- Ability to lead strategic and operational initiatives, break down complicated tasks into smaller sub-components, and adjust plans as situations evolve.
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's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage phone hardware development project schedules with engineering teams, and communicate project status to stakeholders.
- Identify dependencies and collaborate with a cross-functional team to execute, mitigate risks and issues, and meet system build milestones, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of engineers.
- Develop playbooks, tools, and processes to collaborate engineering productivity and own technical relationships with cross-functional vendors and partners.
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