Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Efficiency

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects, plan requirements with internal customers, and shepherd projects through the full lifecycle. You’ll communicate analyses to executives and collaborate with engineers on technical trade-offs in product development.

You will oversee Engineering-specific programs, focusing on capacity planning, efficiency, and reliability, coordinating across stakeholders and portfolios to deliver technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of program management experience.
• 7 years in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
• Experience in capacity planning, demand planning, or supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of engineering programs with stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Identify stakeholders and plan objectives and success criteria.
• Manage schedules, risks, and communicate issues to leadership.
• Own release schedules and maintain high velocity in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Capacity planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program management.
• 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
• Experience in capacity planning, demand planning, or supply chain.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• Experience working with engineering, product and operations teams.

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As a Technical Program Manager you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise, with a focus on capacity planning, efficiency, obtainability and reliability programs. You proactively identify, organize, and lead portfolio activities and stakeholders in order to successfully deliver technical solutions. You scope, phase, and lead ambiguous cross-functional and cross-organizational challenges including delivering downstream change management, alongside your stakeholder team. You ensure alignment of senior cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting‑edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world‑leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

US: $240000 - $333000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a portfolio of several engineering programs for a fast-paced, innovative engineering team. Work with our engineering, product and business stakeholders to deliver outstanding business outcome alignment with our organizational priorities.
• Identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria.
• Manage project schedules, identify possible issues and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders and leadership.
• Take responsibility for release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a fast-paced environment.