Technical Program Manager, Product Design, Pixel
- linkCopy link
- emailEmail a friend
Google welcomes people with disabilities.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management, developing consumer electronics, factory management, or engineering management.
- Experience with consumer hardware, cross-functional teams, including engineering, industrial/product design in module development, vendor development/management.
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of experience with shipping high-volume and high-quality products in consumer electronics or other devices.
- Experience with managing functional engineering teams and working with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.
- Knowledge of consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
- Ability to lead complex, strategic, and operational initiatives, break down complicated tasks into easier/smaller sub-components, organize/guide team to manage situations and quickly adjust the plan as situation evolves.
- Ability to travel 20% of the time as needed.
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 Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage hardware development project schedules with Engineering teams and communicate project status to stakeholders.
- Identify dependencies and Collaborate with a cross-functional team to execute, mitigate risks and issues, and meet system build milestones, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
- Understand consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations, and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of Engineers. Generate the ideas required to solve the technical subjects.
- Develop playbooks, tools and processes to collaborate engineering productivity and own technical relationships with cross-functional vendors and partners.
Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy, Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal, Belonging at Google, and How we hire.
If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.
To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.