Technical Program Manager III, Agentic Compliance, Google Research

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & dental

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days

Sick time 40–69 hrs/yr

Maternity leave 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager in the US (Kirkland, WA or Mountain View, CA) to lead complex compliance projects across AI governance. You’ll plan requirements, manage schedules, and communicate with cross‑functional partners while embedding proactive compliance into product development.

You’ll partner with engineering, product, and security teams, using AI tools to design agentic controls, assess risk, and drive on-time delivery across multiple programs and locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program management experience.
• Experience in security operations (e.g., vulnerability management, system hardening, pentesting).
• Experience in creating, implementing, or managing internal controls in a technical environment.

Responsibilities

• Advocate, design, implement, and operate agentic-based controls across multiple compliance domains that automate risk analysis, triage issues, and validate control implementation.
• Support enterprise-wide remediation initiatives, acting as a strategic partner to support product teams in resolving flaws and maintaining robust compliance postures.
• Manage multiple compliance programs, leveraging innovative AI tooling to define milestones, track success criteria, and ensure on-time delivery.
• Identify, assess, and advise on compliance risks and controls, using AI-first methodologies and intelligent tools for risk analysis.
• Communicate compliance strategy, tool adoption, schedules, and status to stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

Skills

Program management

Security operations

Internal controls

Cross-functional leadership

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in security operations (e.g., vulnerability management, system hardening, pentesting).
• Experience in the creation, implementation, or management of internal controls in a technical environment.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in directly supporting product or engineering teams in a fast paced environment.
• Experience building and using AI tools.
• Experience transforming manual business processes into automated workflows.
• Familiar with security compliance frameworks, controls, and best practices: AICPA Trust Principles (e.g., SOC 2), ISO 27000 series, NIST controls, data protection, and AI governance frameworks.

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. The R3 Office of Compliance operates as the strategic entity for Google Research, Labs, Technology and Society, and Learning and Sustainability. We embed proactive compliance directly into product development to ensure continuous adherence to global regulatory and ethical obligations. As AI rapidly evolves from content-generation to systems with autonomous, agentic capabilities, our core mission is to pioneer Agentic Compliance. We are actively shifting oversight from static output evaluation to dynamic behavioral alignment. We advocate in-house automation to eliminate operational barriers, ensuring that rigorous compliance accelerates, rather than impedes, the safe deployment of Google’s most advanced breakthroughs. Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day. Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Advocate, design, implement, and operate agentic-based controls across multiple compliance domains that automate risk analysis, triage issues, and validate control implementation.
• Support enterprise-wide remediation initiatives, acting as a strategic partner to support product teams in resolving flaws and maintaining robust compliance postures.
• Manage multiple compliance programs, leveraging innovative AI tooling to define milestones, track success criteria, and ensure on-time delivery.
• Identify, assess, and advise on compliance risks and controls, using AI-first methodologies and intelligent tools for risk analysis.
• Communicate compliance strategy, tool adoption, schedules, and status to stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

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 .