Senior Technical Program Manager Lead, Search Verticals and Translate
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in technical program management.
- 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
- 5 years of experience in working with consumer-facing product organizations.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in managing cross-functional technical programs.
- Ability to interact with technical and non-technical audiences, spanning all functions and organizational levels.
- Ability to quickly learn and understand the technical context of programs you drive and to contribute to technical discussions that affect your programs.
- Excellent influencing, team building skills with the ability to deliver solutions in a highly complex, always changing, and nebulous environment.
- Excellent organizational, investigative, prioritization, communication skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent complex interactions with geographically disparate teams.
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.
The Search Verticals and Translate Team (SVT) works on some of the most compelling and frequent consumer information seeking needs across entertainment, sports, recipes, language, music, weather and more, powering over a third of search traffic. These rich experiences help fuel human passion (e.g., sports, media, fandom), deepen human connection (e.g., translate) and provide critical information (e.g., elections, weather, crisis).
Responsibilities
- Lead a distributed team of Technical Program Managers (TPgMs) to drive strategy, planning, operations and execution of the team's top program priorities.
- Be the trusted program owner for the Search Verticals and Translate portfolio, proactively de-risking delivery of committed objectives and key results (OKRs) and managing execution of the corresponding portfolio to deliver in the context of larger Search goals.
- Bring technical, business and program experience to drive critical prioritization and velocity across the the team's portfolio and accelerate execution through streamlining processes, simplifying execution, and building efficiencies.
- Build strong and strategic partnerships across Search Verticals and Translate and broadly across the Search organization. Create clarity, bring visibility and strengthen communication across the teams and bridge seamless communication across teams.
- Serve as a mentor to coach and foster strong cohesive culture within the team.
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