Senior Technical Program Manager, Portfolio Management Lead

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

Job summary

Google Cloud seeks a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from planning to completion. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.

This role emphasizes SDLC governance, OKR lifecycle management, and ensuring alignment with executive expectations while coordinating with engineers, product teams, and partners around the world.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications outline a strong technical/program management background.
• Experience with data analysis and handling multiple projects.
• Experience leading teams and cross-functional programs.

Responsibilities

• Refine and drive GCBP's H1/H2 planning processes, tooling standardization, and comprehensive SDLC monitoring and reporting.
• Lead GCBP's OKR Management life-cycle, including development, metrics definition, and quarterly tracking.
• Optimize GCBP's business cadence with operational reviews to ensure strategic alignment.
• Manage commitment and delivery communications to stakeholders, ensuring alignment.
• Oversee audit and compliance activities with a team of 10 remotely and locally.

Skills

Program management experience

People management

Data analysis

Multi-project management

Resource management

Audit compliance

Process management

Cross-functional leadership

Global cross-functional projects

OKR management

Executive stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

SDLC governance

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program management.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
• 5 years of experience managing teams.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple projects.
• Experience with resource management, audit compliance, and process management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience managing complex cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in managing complex, global and cross-functional projects.
• Ability to optimize business cadence, including operational reviews such as OKR and initiative reviews ensuring strategic alignment and execution.
• Ability to oversee audit and compliance activities to ensure adherence to organizational standards and mitigate risk.
• Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, driving alignment and achieving results.

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.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s digital transformation by delivering enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s technology and tools to help developers build more sustainably. Customers around the world turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Our primary objective at Google Cloud Business Platform (GCBP) is to enable Google Cloud’s scale. We are a product and engineering organization responsible for the applications and platforms that drive cloud marketing, sales, partner, support, finance and other critical functions that run the Google Cloud business. We deliver solutions leveraged by Cloud Customers, Partners, and Googlers alike that enable rapid growth and increase the adoption of Google Cloud around the world.

We operate in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with significant opportunities to create impact, and are looking for people who want to join this exciting journey and address business challenges at scale to drive continued growth.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting‑edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

Responsibilities:

• Refine and drive GCBP's H1/H2 planning processes, tooling standardization (chiron/taskflow/servicenow), and comprehensive Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) monitoring and reporting.
• Lead GCBP's OKR Management life‑cycle, encompassing annual development, metrics definition, and quarterly tracking.
• Optimize GCBP's business cadence, including operational reviews such as objectives and key results (OKR) and initiative reviews, to ensure strategic alignment and execution.
• Manage commitment and delivery communications to stakeholders, ensuring they are informed and aligned on progress.
• Oversee audit and compliance activities to ensure adherence to organizational standards and mitigate risk. Manage team of 10 locally and internationally.