Technical Program Manager, Information Retrieval, Core

Technical Program Manager, Information Retrieval, Core

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience in technical program management on technical cross-functional projects including planning, execution, estimation, risk management, and stakeholder management.
• 2 years of experience managing projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree.
• Experience running large and complex programs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical groups.

Responsibilities

• Understand and join the team to renovate how the end-to-end search infrastructure at Google works.
• Coordinate cross-functional or cross-pillar projects, together with Engineering leaders and technical program manager partners.
• Accelerate the developer velocity with an improving process. Collaborate with a group of talented teams across Core Data globally.

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.Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.In this role, you will be apart of a team that owns infrastructure stack that supports acquiring, processing, indexing, understanding, and serving of data across Google’s most fundamental products, including Search, Ads, YouTube, Shopping, etc. The stack delivers fast, streamlined, and comprehensive journeys that enable Google developers to build products with different planet-scale datasets.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.