Technical Program Manager, Procurement and Commercial Solutions

Technical Program Manager, Procurement and Commercial Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience managing projects.
• 2 years of program management experience on technical cross-functional projects, including planning, execution, estimation, risk management and stakeholder management.
• 2 years of experience engaging with a software development team developing and reviewing technical requirements, design documents, bug triage, setting technical goals, and negotiating technical tradeoffs between teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree.
• Experience helping teams measure and improve operational excellence, product excellence, equity, and accessibility.
• Experience with Agile methodology and program increment planning.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical groups.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage integrated schedules and project plans working across UX, engineering, product teams. Analyze processes, identify opportunities for improvement, define requirements, and collaborate cross-functionally and cross-product areas to improve processes and tools.
• Drive product excellence through assembly of project delivery success criteria, overseeing progress towards success metrics, partner with business stakeholders and technology teams across product areas to define project goals, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Communicate status to leadership and stakeholders, identify roadblocks and propose solutions, use technical knowledge to influence best outcomes both within the team and with stakeholders and partners.
• Support the development of contracting tools or procurement platform partnering with business stakeholders (e.g., legal, finance, product areas).

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The team contributes to developing and maintaining the Contracting Life-cycle Management platforms and Buying Hub, which serves as Google's central procurement platform that simplifies the buying process and facilitates users access to necessary products and services.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.