Lead Technical Program Manager, Production 2020

Google Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 146,000 - 149,000; Full time

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Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Dublin, Ireland is seeking a Lead Technical Program Manager for the Production 2020 program. You will guide complex, multi-disciplinary engineering initiatives, plan requirements with internal customers, and drive programs from start to finish.

You will manage schedules, identify risks, and communicate trade-offs to executives while collaborating with teams across Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform and Core to improve reliability, safety, and usability of production services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in project or program management, managing cross-functional technical projects.
• Experience in people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using engineering expertise.
• Plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the full lifecycle.
• Manage project schedules, identify risks, and clearly communicate them to stakeholders.
• Explain analyses and recommendations to executives and discuss trade-offs with engineers.
• Drive the technical directions of programs and identify future opportunities.

Skills

Outcomes ownership

Decision making

Stakeholder influence

Engineering leadership

Site Reliability Engineering

AI-first mindset

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Lead Technical Program Manager, Production 2020

Google Dublin, Ireland

Advanced

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in project or program management, managing cross-functional technical projects.
• Experience in people management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in the operations of infrastructure for maintaining a reliable fleet of machines in the infrastructure on a large scale.
• Knowledge of industry best practices and standard within site reliability engineering.
• Ability to have an AI-first mindset in understanding where to utilize the technology and capabilities to enhance progress and delivery.
• Ability to think strategically, execute methodically, communicate and influence at multiple levels, including executive leadership, partners, managers, and engineers, to develop strategic relationships and drive execution.
• Ability to work effectively with highly technical engineering teams across multiple organizations.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Production 2020 program is an SRE initiative with the mission to meaningfully reduce the amount of time a typical Google engineer spends on basic service management in production.

The P2020 Technical Program Management team partners with the organization to develop and deploy internal solutions that increase the productivity of Google engineers (across all business units) as they operate their Google Production services.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will guide and optimize strategic programs for the P2020 organization, collaborating closely with partner teams with Technical Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform and Core. You will be passionate about infrastructure and are looking to make a direct impact on Google - wide production management, focusing specifically on reliability, safety, and usability.

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.

Ireland: €146000 - €149000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Deliver results in dynamic and ambiguous situations, excellent organizational, facilitation and communication skills.
• Develop and articulate long-term strategy for highly complex, ambiguous programs reaching beyond the immediate organization to drive efficiency.
• Become a trusted advisor to executive decision-makers, providing valuable technical insights and aligning executive stakeholders on program direction and sensitive communications.
• Establish best practices and systems for identifying improvements in processes, products, or services through measurement and performance metrics. Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making, mitigates cross-organization dependencies, and establishes a cadence for program reviews and resource stewardship.
• Identify, mentor, and develop high-potential program managers and team members, preparing them for future roles within the organization or with peer organizations in Google.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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