Technical Program Manager II

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 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.

As a Technical Program Manager on our Platforms and Devices Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations (PDEIO) team, you will be empowering our Android Engineers to build faster, smarter, and with higher quality. You won’t just manage programs but cultivate a growing engineering ecosystem by leading internal training, crafting crystal-clear documentation, and optimizing critical processes.

You will guide new team members, a trusted advisor for engineers seeking to master new workflows, and the crucial link translating their valuable feedback into actionable improvements for engineering teams. You will shape our engineering productivity roadmap, ensuring we’re building the innovative tools and streamlined processes that directly accelerate our Android development. Your cross-functional leadership will be critical as you collaborate with the Android Platform and other teams to transform how our Android engineers work.The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google’s various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first-party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user’s interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance, feedback and insights to influence the roadmaps across Android engineering infrastructure and operations to increase developer productivity.
• Work with others to identify areas of improvement in Android engineers and develop solutions, follow up on results, develop communication strategy to share teams progress internally, and organizational progress with the users.
• Contribute to technical systems documentation by partnering with engineers and technical staff, document scope, establish integrated schedules, assess and communicate program progress and risk across all levels.
• Provide technical guidance, feedback and insights to influence the roadmaps across PDEIO to increase service reliability, improve and maintain the ongoing quality of service for the product.
• Design and implement processes that scale, ensure proper prioritization and cross-team alignment and identify and resolve cross-functional and inter-team issues.