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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will keep an innovative engineering team firing on all cylinders. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, and engineering partners to get high-quality products built, tested, and released on time. You will coordinate many fast-changing, moving parts and get them to come together as a product. You will need excellent communication skills to be the owner of all questions about schedules, quality, and progress updates. You are responsible for identifying and managing risks, making sound judgments about quality, and stopping production at the right time.

You will play a key role in ensuring that mechanical/UX/human factor product requirements are captured, managing cross-functional communication and technical dependencies with other Google teams, creating and driving the overall mechanical schedule, identifying and mitigating risk at all stages, and defining the overall rhythm and meeting touch points between teams.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$229,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Define, drive, and own the overall mechanical and electro-mechanical component development process from concept to launch for new Google products.

• Interface between vendors and product engineering teams, setting and managing schedules and milestones. Constantly balance schedule, cost, performance, and user experience trade-offs.

• Drive mechanical design reviews with cross-functional teams and tool releases for all mechanical components in the product.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate key focus points and next steps with engineering, vendors, operations, quality, and management. Improve and maintain processes that ensure team members have what they need to understand and execute on all objectives.

• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution. Drive failure analysis and triage for issues. Synthesize large amounts of data into a clear story and communicate to stakeholders and organizations at all levels.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in program management.

• Experience with consumer electronics (e.g., phones, tablets, watches, etc.).

• Experience with hardware product lifecycle.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.