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Technical Program Manager, AIM, Google Ads

Google
Full-time
On-site

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in technical program management.
  • 5 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
  • 4 years of experience managing projects.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  • 5 years of experience in supervisory.
  • Experience with the software development life cycle
  • Ability to successfully manage ambiguous strategic and operationally complex programs with cross-functional teams.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide. 
  • Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity which affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it’s used effectively. 
  • Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that target high business impact for the organization and product area.
  • Use leadership, product and technical judgment to drive program delivery, work closely with engineering, product management, UX and other partner teams 
  • Manage program execution and issues as they arise through design, development, test, and deployment.
    Own program communications to leadership and stakeholders.
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