Technical Lead Manager, Digital Wellbeing, Android

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Digital Wellbeing organization seeks a Software Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams, drive technical strategy, and guide AI initiatives across large-scale projects. You will oversee architecture choices, mentor engineers, and ensure productive collaboration with Android, AI, and product groups.

The role emphasizes leadership across sites, managing budgets and international deployments while advancing Digital Wellbeing goals and user-focused outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models in production.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 2 years of experience in a people management role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Digital Wellbeing engineering team, own the technical strategy and execution.
• Adopt a cross-functional leadership role across Android teams and global partners.
• Architect and deliver AI solutions to Digital Wellbeing problems.
• Ensure the team, codebase, and processes scale with advancing technology.
• Manage internal stakeholders and align with product strategy.

Skills

Software development experience

Recommendation systems

Technical leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Android SDK

Job description

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Digital Wellbeing’s mission is to empower everyone to build intentional, healthy relationships with technology.

Mobile devices are central to modern life, connecting us to information, loved ones, and essential services. However, as digital experiences become more immersive, users face growing issues around digital distraction, cognitive overload, and compulsive engagement. Finding balance and staying present in daily life has become one of the defining consumer needs of our time.

Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

• Lead the Digital Wellbeing engineering team, own the technical strategy and execution, and establish an excellent team culture.
• Adopt a cross-functional leadership role. Own a critical global issue impacting the lives of 1B+ users around the world. Obsess over what's best for our users and drive the mission forward.
• Architect and deliver AI solutions to our hardest Digital Wellbeing problems.
• Ensure that the team, codebase, and processes are set up to make the best possible use of the technology as it advances.
• Partner with global partnersacross functions and across Android teams. Digital Wellbeing under the spotlight and a meaningful part of your role will be helping to manage internal stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience building and deploying recommendation systems models (retrieval, prediction, ranking, embedding) in production and experience building architecture in different modeling domains.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Android development in Java or Kotlin.
  
• Experience implementing on-device machine learning or AI feature development.
• Team management experience.
• Personal interest in AI adoption at a team level.
• Passion for the Digital Wellbeing mission.
  
• Strong portfolio of cross-functional user-focused collaboration and project ownership.