Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with the software development life cycle (e.g., build, test, and release).
• Experience in the consumer product development or business generation space.
• Experience creating and driving processes.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in the consumer hardware industry.
• Experience managing cross-functional software projects.
• Experience with cross-functional and cross-product area collaboration.
• Ability to lead through changing priorities and deliver impact.

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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

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

• Manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate them to project stakeholders.
• Plan product/feature launches through the various stages, coordinate with Product, Engineering, UX, Marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders, including privacy, legal, partnerships, and support.
• Collaborate both internally, with cross-functional and cross-product/cross-company teams, remove roadblocks, and keep processes running.
• Manage communication of plans/progress/status within and outside the team.
• Evolve roadmap/launch planning and execution programs and processes.