Technical Program Manager Lead, Android London, England
Job description
Minimum qualifications:
- Experience in Technical Program Management.
- Experience in People Management and Agile Project Management.
- Experience working with geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with mobile feature development.
- Experience with the software development life-cycle, managing software projects, and working with product teams across a matrixed organization.
- Ability to produce documents that communicate strategy, status, scope, timelines, task planning, action items, risks, issues, project dependencies, or test planning.
- Ability to effectively improve team health and cohesion, especially across time zones.
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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Drive cross-team engagements for programs associated with the Platform, including owning compliance.
- Manage criteria, resource allocation and delivery of features with quality, velocity and reliability.
- Execute, deliver and create new processes for sub-workstreams and projects, including managing complex project schedules, removing roadblocks and keeping processes running smoothly.
- Use leadership, influence and a data driven approach to manage risks and identify issues.
- Work effectively across multiple timezones. Manage and execute a robust communication plan for progress and risks to a complex web of executive stakeholders.
