Technical Program Manager III, Software Engineering, Payments

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager in Mountain View to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You will plan requirements with stakeholders, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate with cross-functional partners across the company.

You’ll explain analyses to executives and discuss technical tradeoffs with engineers. The Payments Platform team moves billions across 236+ countries, building front-end flows, back-end systems, and billing tools to enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience working with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage software implementation projects, including full project management and tracking timelines and deliverables.
• Work with engineering, program management, UX and cross-functional partners to define requirements, scope, schedule, resourcing, milestones, and resolve issues.
• Understand complex systems at high and low levels, facilitate team discussions, drive risk mitigations.
• Ensure launch readiness, coordinate testing, rollout, post-launch monitoring.
• Collaborate across teams within payments and cross-product areas (Android, Devices, etc.).

Skills

Program management experience

SDLC familiarity

Experience working with engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience working with engineers.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience working with engineers.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience managing large scale software development projects within financial systems.
• Experience in driving large leadership-level meetings or business reviews, drafting presentations and leading discussions in a large group setting.
• Understands engineering design, data flows and structures, and proven ability to partner with engineering teams.
• Proven ability to take ownership, bring order into chaos, and collaborate well with others.

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 Payments Platform team is the financial backbone of Google, responsible for moving more than $150B across 236+ countries. We support strategic growth for 100+ product teams, including Play, YouTube, Cloud and Ads, by building the front-end user flows, backend systems, and billing tools necessary to enable global payments. Our core mission is to facilitate seamless customer transactions and business growth, while ensuring compliance with global government regulations.

This Technical Program Manager will support critical projects and programs across the 4Cs team (Charging, Credit, Collections and Cash applications) and Google's financial systems. You will combine deep technical and payment expertise with a powerful understanding of these clients’ needs to help them meet their business goals and drive Google growth.

Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.

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

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• Own and facilitate software implementation projects, including providing full project management, creation and maintenance of implementation documentation and tracking timelines and deliverables.
• Work closely with engineering, program manager, UX, and cross-functional partners to define requirements, scope, schedule, resourcing, milestones/tasks, and to resolve issues that arise during design, implementation, and post-production.
• Understand complex systems at high and low levels, and facilitate team discussions, drive issues to resolution, help identify risk mitigations.
• Ensure launch readiness, coordinate testing, rollout, post-launch monitoring.
• Collaborate across various teams within the broader payments organization, as well as cross-product area teams from Android, Devices, etc.

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 .