Google Looking For Technical Program Manager, Accessibility Partnerships at New York, NY Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of experience in program or partnerships management, managing multiple projects and providing consultation as a subject matter expert.

3 years of direct experience in front-end software or UX development for mobile or web platforms.

Experience implementing accessibility guidelines or accessibility testing.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience defining deliverables, setting goals, tracking and reporting progress, and structuring tasks.

Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders.

Ability to bring order out of chaos through technical problem solving, promoting visibility, collaboration, and excellent communication.

Ability to manage trade offs, dependencies, and risks.

Excellent collaboration 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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Central Accessibility Team’s mission is to build innovative solutions and ensure Google’s products are accessible and empower people with disabilities to be socially engaged and productive. In this role you’ll collaborate with a wide variety of product teams and functions across Google to define and share best practices and policies on accessibility. You will partner closely with internal organizations to guide and empower them to build sustainable staffing and accessibility programs.

Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software engineers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world’s fast-paced business needs.

Responsibilities

Guide and empower Google product teams to build sustainable staffing and programs to improve accessibility.

Partner with a wide variety of cross-functional organizations to maintain, evolve, and expand guidance for emerging technologies.

Provide technical consultation and expertise to support product teams in implementing accessibility standards and policies.

Manage a wide range of programs simultaneously at varying stages, and create process improvements to increase organizational effectiveness.

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