Google Looking For Technical Program Manager, Chrome OS Platform Device Enablement at Mountain View, CA Full Time

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

4 years of Program Management experience.

Experience with Consumer Hardware.

Experience working on software development projects.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience working with cross-functional teams and external partner teams.

Experience working on complex hardware and software systems.

Experience in planning and delivering innovative and technical product development.

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

At Chrome OS, we have engaged original equipment manufactures (OEMs) to bring devices from design to customer release. As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead the program management and technical execution of reference design platforms leading to Chromebook development.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

Own the execution of Chromebook reference design from initial program creation through hardware and software bringup, resulting in final OEM devices (e.g., Chromebooks).

Review Chrome OS roadmap with product managers, define reference design project scope, allocate engineering resources, publish program schedules, and manage overall program.

Work closely with Chrome OS hardware and software engineering teams as well as external partners on engineering designs, periodic design reviews, qualification efforts, and regular bug triaging.

Work with OEMs and ODMs in building hardware.

Work with several Chrome OS cross-functional teams like partner Engineering, Lab, and Test teams on Chromebook validation and testing efforts.

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