Program Manager II, Quality Testing, Google Home
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with quality testing.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience with end user applications.
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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
At Google Home, the team's mission is to create a home that takes care of the people inside it and the world around it. As part of the Health and Home Engineering Excellence (EngEx) team, you will be defining and implementing processes to launch high quality features and products for Google Home. You will bring together multiple teams building excellent solutions to test engineering problems to provide insights throughout the product development life cycle enabling high quality releases at higher velocity and efficiency.
You will help define and drive the process of how Engineering Excellence teams and other cross-functional teams work together to launch Google Home products and features to users at high quality and velocity by solving unique test engineering problems.
The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000-$181,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver predictable program communication plans in collaboration with program stakeholders, including focused communications by stakeholder type.
- Determine phasing and metrics associated with program lifecycle that address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) in collaboration with program stakeholders, including near- and long-term objectives.
- Determine and collect data required to execute and govern programs. Maintain project trackers and status reports. Identify and execute on program tasks including managing dependencies.
- Execute change management requirements that are identified by program stakeholders.
- Build trusted relationships with program stakeholders, including managing expectations of program stakeholders and ensuring they have the insights they need to make decisions.
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