Technical Program Manager, New Product Introduction Lifecycle Engineering

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.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex, cross-functional programs through the Product Lifecycle, ensuring supply chain and design partner team deliverables are met in order to support critical program milestones. 
• Support onboarding and qualification of N+1 suppliers through leading design reviews, specification C/D/Es, product SOWs, and engineer of record alignment.
• Ensure product designs are complete, accurate, and provided on schedule to enable a smooth transition to the execution team for on-time manufacturing and delivery.
• Act as first level escalation point where partner team deliverables are not being met. Communicate program risks to leadership while providing mitigation recommendations.
• Lead change control/management for your products, ensuring impacts are communicated and cross-functional alignment is obtained before cut-in and dissemination to supply base.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in New Product Introduction (NPI) and leading a product through the Product Life Cycle (PLC).

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Operations Engineering, or other relevant field.
  
• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• Experience in multiple aspects of hardware operations.
• Knowledge of typical hardware BOMs, process documentation and assembly and test processes.
  
• Developed leadership, analytical, quantitative reasoning, problem-solving, creativity and strategic skills.