Technical Program Manager III, New Product Introduction, Technical Infrastructure

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead cross‑functional hardware and software programs within Cloud infrastructure. You will plan requirements, manage schedules, assess risks, and communicate with stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations.

This role emphasizes end‑to‑end delivery of complex systems, including data center deployments, GPU compute, and AI/ML platforms. You’ll translate technical tradeoffs into clear roadmaps and drive programs from inception through

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience launching new products (NPI) including hardware and software development and systems infrastructure.
• Experience with data center infrastructure and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team spanning all levels and functions to develop and deliver hardware programs from inception to production.
• Set the vision and direction for a program, outline goals, supervise projects, and define governance and standards.
• Apply technical judgment to drive delivery, evaluate proposals, and align Cloud processes with central processes.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, maps, presentations, and status reports.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Technical acumen

Data center infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in launching new products (NPI), encompassing hardware and software development, and systems infrastructure.
• Experience with data center infrastructure and deployment.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in hardware engineering, software engineering, GPU Systems and solutions.
• Experience with launching IaaS VM, bare metal and machine of the day products.
• Ability to assess engineering problems and understanding of large scale distributed systems.

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 Platforms Infrastructure Engineering Program Management Office (PMO) is part of technical infrastructure under AI2 programs organization and partners with Google Compute Engine (GCE)/TI Engineering, Networking, Data center, Supply Chain and Operations teams to deliver a broad product roadmap of AI/ML and Standard Compute systems, and solutions critical to enabling Cloud (3P) IaaS business and Google (1P) services.

Cloud Security Guardrails (CSG)-PMO (part of PIE PMO) delivers industry leading compute, storage and GPU products E2E for both Cloud and TI customers first to market. The team focuses on delivering business impacts with customer first approach and with velocity, quality, and predictability.

This is an Individual contributor role and will be lead Technical Program Manager (TPM) driving System and Solution development to deliver next generation AI/ML (GPU) systems for Cloud, and TI use cases.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a cross-functional team, spanning all organizational levels and functional areas to develop and deliver hardware programs from inception to production.
• Set the vision and direction for a program by outlining goals and objectives, evaluating and supervising multiple projects, organizing cross-project work within the program, and defining program controls/governance/standards.
• Use technical judgment to drive project delivery, technology reviews, challenge proposals and build consensus. Drive consistency between Cloud processes and central processes.
• Develop and prepare project documentation, process maps, presentations and tracking reports to provide detailed current status of each project.
• Engage with engineering directors, product leaders and other TPM groups, to streamline processes, simplify execution, manage Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), release on time, bring tooling for efficiencies and help the teams you are engaged with in execution.