Senior Technical Program Manager, Google Networking Technologies

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager for its Networking Technologies group in Sunnyvale to lead multi-disciplinary projects from conception to delivery. You will work with engineers and stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate progress across teams, including executives.

The role involves cross-functional planning for NPIs, network architectures, and the deployment of new hardware and software features, with emphasis on SDN concepts and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with GNT and Core Engineering teams to develop and articulate long-term strategy and short-term plans, creating roadmaps, engaging teams and engineers, and setting the development pace.
• Deliver cross-functional projects/programs predictably, ensuring customer value. Manage core programs, including new NPIs, core architecture, and features/functions, to deliver new services by establishing measurable milestones, tracking deliverables, and delivering incremental customer value.
• Design and implement new process improvements and facilitate scaling for program teams.
• Navigate high levels of ambiguity to drive transformational change and systemic improvements, initiating organizational pivots with minimal disruption while addressing complex, large-scale challenges.
• Leverage technical judgment to drive project delivery, technology reviews, technical proposals, and consensus across cross-functional teams. Provide a strong quantitative analysis focus and translate the findings into recommendations and actionable plans.

Skills

Program management

Software infrastructure

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Job description

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software infrastructure.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in distributed architecture.
• Experience in networking, software architecture, design and development of scalable and reliable systems.
• Experience networking infrastructure, especially in global backbone, cloud provider and service provider networks.
• Knowledge of dataplane, control plane, management plane and Software Defined Networking (SDN).
• Ability to manage without authority and to challenge the status quo when necessary and firm sense of accountability, bias-for-action.

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.

We connect Google to the world of all its services and applications including Google Cloud, Search and YouTube. You will like the idea of implementing software solutions on networking technology that connect billions of users around the world, enabling their imagination by providing seamless, dependable connectivity.

As a Technical Program Manager in Google Networking Technologies (GNT), responsibilities include leading cross-functional project initiatives that span organizational levels to facilitate the delivery of NPIs, network architectures, delivering new hardware and software features, and the orchestration of network migrations.

This role entails collaborating with GNT engineering teams to formulate and articulate a long-term strategic vision, develop comprehensive roadmaps, engage cross-functional teams, and establish the development cadence for software systems and networking infrastructure.

You will initiate new programs and be the catalyst for gaining support and driving them through completion. You will design and launch new processes, institute process improvements, and help program teams scale. And in doing so, you will improve Google’s ability to deliver network capacity on-time, with high availability and achieve maximum efficiency.

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.

US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Collaborate with GNT and Core Engineering teams to develop and articulate long-term strategy and short-term plans, creating roadmaps, engaging teams and engineers, and setting the development pace.
• Deliver cross-functional projects/programs predictably, ensuring customer value. Manage core programs, including new NPIs, core architecture, and features/functions, to deliver new services by establishing measurable milestones, tracking deliverables, and delivering incremental customer value.
• Design and implement new process improvements and facilitate scaling for program teams.
• Navigate high levels of ambiguity to drive transformational change and systemic improvements, initiating organizational pivots with minimal disruption while addressing complex, large-scale challenges.
• Leverage technical judgment to drive project delivery, technology reviews, technical proposals, and consensus across cross-functional teams. Provide a strong quantitative analysis focus and translate the findings into recommendations and actionable plans.

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 .