Technical Program Manager, Google Play Developer

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll 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. The Mobile team builds tools to get you information anywhere.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in program management, including predictive risk management, resource estimation, and global stakeholder steering.
• Experience navigating engineering organizations with dependencies and cross-site partners.
• Experience navigating engineering scope, assessing feasibility, and managing dependencies across a global stack.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate projects that span offices, product areas, and time zones, ensuring all players are aligned on progress and deadlines.
• Partner with engineering and product leads to accelerate organizational execution and drive high-priority initiatives.
• Manage the organization’s portfolio planning and prioritization, drive Roadmap/Objectives and Key Results (OKR) planning, milestones, and software schedules in partnership with Product, UX and Engineering.
• Advocate the use of AI best practices and tools to automate workflows, reduce manual toil, and improve overall program efficiency.
• Architect scalable processes and introduce governance frameworks to reduce organizational complexity and improve global communication.

Skills

Program management

Predictive risk management

Resource estimation

Global stakeholder steering

Cross-site collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in program management, including predictive risk management, resource estimation, and global stakeholder steering.
• Experience navigating engineering organizations with dependencies and cross-site partners.
• Experience navigating engineering scope, assessing feasibility, and managing dependencies across a global stack.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in program management, including predictive risk management, resource estimation, and global stakeholder steering.
• Experience navigating engineering organizations with dependencies and cross-site partners.
• Experience navigating engineering scope, assessing feasibility, and managing dependencies across a global stack.

Preferred qualifications

• Proven track record of managing portfolio planning and roadmap prioritization, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, and executive North Star metrics
• Proficiency in leveraging AI tools and frameworks to automate workflows, enhance data-driven decision-making, and accelerate program execution.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to drive consensus across organizational boundaries and reach agreement on product direction.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical trade-offs for executive audiences and align stakeholders.

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.

Making the world's information universally accessible and useful doesn't stop at the desktop. The Mobile team builds tools to get you the information you need no matter where you are. Android has become the world's most popular mobile ecosystem, powering billions of devices, from smartphones to tablets, watches to TVs and everything in between. Whether adding to the core Android experience, forging new markets for digital content, creating immersive and portable versions of our products or managing relationships with a global community of developers, the Mobile team is giving you Google on the go.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate projects that span offices, product areas, and time zones, ensuring all players are aligned on progress and deadlines.
• Partner with engineering and product leads to accelerate organizational execution and drive high-priority initiatives.
• Manage the organization’s portfolio planning and prioritization, drive Roadmap/Objectives and Key Results (OKR) planning, milestones, and software schedules in partnership with Product, UX and Engineering.
• Advocate the use of AI best practices and tools to automate workflows, reduce manual toil, and improve overall program efficiency.
• Architect scalable processes and introduce governance frameworks to reduce organizational complexity and improve global communication.

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 .