Technical Program Manager, Assurance, Risk, and Compliance

Google; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 104,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Frankfurt is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from initiation to delivery. You will plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and executives, translate global risk and compliance frameworks into local execution, and ensure alignment with regional mandates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience interacting with various government and regulatory bodies.
• Experience in compliance, risk management, audit, communication strategy.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate proactive assurance programs, manage localized external audits, and translate global risk/compliance frameworks into localized execution.
• Coordinate the regional assurance calendar. Facilitate proactive testing by the 1LoD to validate control effectiveness outside of formal audit cycles.
• Manage and drive specialized risk and compliance programs dedicated to highly specific country-level mandates, ensuring precise local execution.
• When localized assurance testing reveals a control gap or an unmitigated risk, partner directly with 1LoD site leads to flag and implement a practical fix before it becomes an audit finding.
• Translate master global policies into actionable steps for the 1LoD, ensuring testing rubrics are physically executable for sites facing bespoke local mandates.

Skills

Program management

Regulatory liaison

Compliance

Risk management

Audit

Communication strategy

Multi-project mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Frankfurt, Germany; Hanau, Germany.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience interacting with various government and regulatory bodies.
• Experience in areas such as compliance, risk management, audit, communication strategy.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in areas like large scale program management, compliance, assurance, risk management, audit, communication strategy, and PgM generalist work.
• Experience and confidence in interacting with various government and regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to construct, articulate and defend simple and impactful messages/insights from complex analysis.

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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €104000 - €106000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Coordinate proactive assurance programs, manage localized external audits, and translate global risk/compliance frameworks into localized execution.
• Coordinate the regional assurance calendar. Facilitate proactive testing by the 1LoD to validate control effectiveness outside of formal audit cycles.
• Manage and drive specialized risk and compliance programs dedicated to highly specific country-level mandates, ensuring precise local execution.
• When localized assurance testing reveals a control gap or an unmitigated risk, partner directly with 1LoD site leads to flag and implement a practical fix before it becomes an audit finding.
• Translate master global policies into actionable steps for the 1LoD, ensuring testing rubrics are physically executable for sites facing bespoke local mandates.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.