Google Hiring for Fitbit Operations, Program Manager at San Diego, CA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience in program management
- Experience with supply chain management
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with hardware manufacturing
- Experience with operations management and strategic planning
- Demonstrated customer focus with an ability to evaluate and develop processes to meet corporate, operations, and sourcing goals.
- Excellent collaboration and presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for clear and succinct delivery
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.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
We are the central Strategy Deployment team for Fitbit Global Operations. In this role you will be a strategic partner to the functional teams of global operations to create, align and operationalize Fitbit strategies and initiatives, including integration with Google processes. You will drive operational transformation and efficiency by identification, selection, prioritization, and the execute on strategic initiatives across the Fitbit global operations team.
As a Program Manager, you will identify and measure key performance indicators to track the health of the global operation and provide mentorship to the Global Operations team on strategic, functionally managed projects.
Fitbit’s diverse line of innovative products of smartwatches, trackers and smart scale help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Our products deliver personalized experiences, insights and guidance through leading software and interactive tools to support our users’ health and wellness. Partnering with Google will expand our resources and global platform, and we will be able to accelerate innovation in the wearables category to scale faster, and make health even more accessible to everyone.
Responsibilities
- Drive creation of the annual strategy for Fitbit Operations.
- Lead project teams in support of the strategy from concept scoping through deployment, by managing overall project activities, plans, and schedules associated with deliverables and milestones.
- Lead, guide, and support multiple work stream through the design and implementation of targeted change strategies (i.e., identification of change impacts to people, process, policy, and structure, stakeholder identification and alignment, appropriate communication and feedback loops, success measures, training, organizational readiness, and long-term sustainability).
- Bring Manufacturing Operations and Supply Chain experience to help to shape the projects in alignment with the overall Operations Strategy.
- Document current and future processes and drive capabilities globally based on business strategy and priorities.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.