Google Looking For Senior Technical Program Manager, Silicon Software at San Diego, CA Full Time

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience

10 years of experience in technical program management or software development

Experience working with embedded systems

Experience with people management

Preferred qualifications:
Experience in mobile devices and/or hardware and software programs

Experience in software engineering

Experience in managing and growing people/teams

Ability to work with technical engineering teams, while helping deliver against a backlog

Ability to communicate and influence with multiple levels (e.g., executives, managers, and engineers) to develop relationships and execute with excellent written and verbal communication skills

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.

As a member of the Silicon Software Technical Program Management team, you will focus on managing the planning, execution, and successful productization of Silicon Software features. You will be working with cross-functional teams from Silicon Software, Silicon and Product Hardware, and Platform and Product Software teams to bring together the various sub-systems that go into building a product’s functionality. You will ensure schedules, commitments, and priorities are aligned across the Silicon Software and cross-functional teams ensuring timely oversight and communication to key stakeholders. Your work will also help drive continual learnings and quality improvements. You will also be managing a team of trusted platform modules who are driving silicon software programs.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

Manage a software execution project. Work with multiple teams in product features technologies with cross-functional initiatives.

Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and push the team to be successful. Develop domain and technical knowledge.

Remove obstacles to drive momentum and progress. Identify communication gaps, manage issue escalations, and provide support to teams balancing priorities.

Interface with Engineering Managers and Engineers across both hardware and software to estimate work efforts, define milestones, and manage resources.

Drive features, track progress, resolve dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to upper management and project stakeholders.

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.