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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
In this role, you will be responsible for delivering on cost, supply, and quality across all hardware products. You will lead capabilities development for the Devices and Services Product Group (DSPG) with multiple stakeholders across the organization. You will have an opportunity to shape how product teams launch and define products, drive efficiencies across a global operations team, develop scalable processes, onboard new capabilities, and resolve top issues gating productivity and business growth.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices and Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices and Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$189,000 + 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 business processes and write requirements to drive and improve systems development efforts around capabilities related to the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and sourcing management.

• Develop training plans for users of existing tools and manage backlog feedback for future capability prioritization and continuous improvement.

• Liaise with Finance, Product Operations, Product Management, and Business System teams to establish a roadmap and deliver platform capabilities.

• Identify problems, risks, and dependencies across cross-functional teams and create projects or processes to solve them.

• Structure and execute analyses required to develop recommendations, disseminate findings to the leadership team and the broader organization, and determine plans to execute and implement solutions.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience in program or project management.

• Experience working in supply chain sourcing capabilities or hardware manufacturing.

• Experience in business systems implementation, business process analysis, process deployment, or digital transformation.

Preferred qualifications

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

• Experience in hardware cost management, capital expenditure, design for cost, or financial modeling.

• Knowledge of hardware product life-cycle and new product design.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams, leadership, and external vendors.

• Excellent time-management skills, with the ability to operate in a changing environment and to manage ever-changing priorities and deadlines.