Operations Program Manager, Pixel Watches

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC Mountain View, CA seeks an experienced Operations Program Manager for Pixel Watches. You will be the primary manufacturing interface for a new hardware product, guiding development builds and changes across global teams to meet high standards of functionality and quality.

Your role spans engineers, product teams and external partners, ensuring timely deliverables, capacity planning and cost optimization as projects move from development to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in hardware operations for the consumer technology market.
• Experience launching consumer hardware products in CM or JDM models.
• Experience in hardware operations, BOM, assembly/test, Capex and OCOGS.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage NPI development builds ensuring high quality and cost efficiency.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across offices and time zones.
• Influence executive decision making and provide clear options for resolution.
• Lead production ramp and transition to sustaining operations.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Stakeholder influence

Ambiguity handling

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Manufacturing experience (CM/JDM)

Cost of Goods (COGS/BOM) management

Job description

Operations Program Manager, Pixel Watches

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Advanced

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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in hardware operations for the consumer technology market.
• Experience launching consumer hardware products in one or more manufacturing models (e.g., Contract Manufacturing (CM) or Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM)).
• Experience in hardware operations.
• Experience in hardware bill of materials, assembly/test processes, Capex and Operating Cost of Goods Sold (OCOGS).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in working with global and cross-functional internal and external teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present to leadership.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative reasoning, problem solving, creativity and strategic skills.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time internationally.

About the job

As a New Product Operations Program Manager, you will be the primary manufacturing interface for a new hardware product. You will work with Google’s engineering and product teams to drive new product development builds and support ongoing changes to existing products. You will lead a team to ensure products are designed and built to Google’s high standards of functionality and quality. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines. The New Product Introduction (NPI) team also defines pricing and sourcing strategy for new products.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

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

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Plan and execute NPI development builds and influence product manufacturability, testability, and supply chain responsiveness in pursuit of high quality, optimal cost and maximum capacity.
• Manage all operations-related communications, upward and downward, throughout the organization; escalated key issues and present options for resolution to executives.
• Drive cross-functional teams to deliver on product goals; build consensus among teams to balance risks and influence executive decision making.
• Manage NPI project schedules and operational deliverables, identify risks and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders with tradeoffs and mitigation plans.
• Lead cross-functional teams within Google and external partners to prepare for production ramp and product transition to sustaining.

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