Technical Program Manager III, Quality Engineering, Consumer Shopping

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Technical Program Manager III for Quality Engineering in Consumer Shopping. You will lead complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives from inception to launch, coordinating product, engineering, and data teams to improve quality and readability metrics.

You will plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate decisions to executives and engineers alike, while mentoring junior teammates and driving cross-functional collaboration across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program management experience.
• Experience using data/analytics to define and improve quality/readability metrics.
• Experience launching incremental software releases and managing lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish.
• Plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate with partners across teams.
• Explain analyses to executives and discuss tradeoffs with engineers.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to improve Shopping data initiatives and launches.
• Drive cross-functional launch readiness across locales with policy awareness.

Skills

Program management

Data analytics

SDLC

Metrics definition

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Technical Program Manager III, Quality Engineering, Consumer Shopping

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience working with data and analytics to define, track, and improve product quality and readability metrics.
• Experience executing incremental software launches and software development lifecycles.

X Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Intellectual curiosity and natural comfort with learning technical material, processes and applications quickly and thoroughly with an ability to quickly develop expertise in new areas and projects.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, working independently and driving projects to completion with minimum guidance and high attention to detail.
• Action-oriented with organizational, project management abilities, and masterful use of written and verbal communication skills.
• Practical, independent problem solver with natural curiosity, research, fact-finding, and analytical skills.

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.

In this role, you will work in a fast-paced environment, partner closely with our Product and Engineering teams, and use your entrepreneurial drive to contribute to the long-term growth of Google Shopping. As a Technical Program Manager for Shopping Data, you will continually improve the online shopping experience on Google Shopping through managing team initiatives. You will work directly with Engineering teams throughout Shopping to launch and support features.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

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 .

• Learn and build expertise in new processes and technical applications.
• Manage software launches across multiple surfaces.
• Prioritize and manage projects and deliverables effectively, and quickly adapt projects to changing processes and requirements.
• Lead efforts to obtain, manage and enhance data used to make product decisions.
• Lead launch efforts with a deep understand of the process, policies and regulations that must be followed to launch in different locales.

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