Program Manager II, Transformation and Governance, Platforms and Devices

Google•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

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. As a Program Manager within the Operational Transformation and Governance team, you will play a critical role in optimizing the Product Development Process (PDP) for Google Hardware. In this role, you will help lead the PDP and its strategy development with multiple stakeholders across the organization for one of Google’s largest growing operating teams, which is responsible for providing consumer goods and customer support for all of Google hardware products. You will have an opportunity to shape how we influence product teams to launch products, drive efficiencies across a global operations team, develop scalable processes of development, onboard new capabilities to the PDP and resolve top issues gating product development through our ongoing gate process. You will lead or support key devices and services projects, driving cross-functional collaboration and navigating complex challenges with agility and creativity. This role requires exceptional communication, a bias for action, and an ability to deliver impactful results on an organizational scale. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience in program or project management.
Experience designing product development processes.
Experience in the consumer hardware industry.

Nice To Haves

2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
Experience in finance, operations or management consulting.
Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to analyze program performance, identify dependencies, and provide actionable recommendations to leadership.
Knowledge of developing and shipping consumer electronics products, (e.g., mobile or wearable devices).

Responsibilities

Govern and execute the overall product development process to support new product development for the business units supporting first-party (1P) goods/emerging products.
Manage overall product development gate review meetings and coordinating, guiding, coaching program teams on the preparation to fulfill gate requirements.
Partner closely across many functions and use cross-functional knowledge to understand dependencies and perspectives that may influence the business and the PDP process.
Identify problems and dependencies across the organization and create programs or processes to evolve the PDP to meet the needs of the community and external factors.
Design and build key PDP operational structures and processes, ensuring efficient and nimble workflows across cross-functional teams globally and cascade tenets of the PDP evolution for executive leadership and other internal and external stakeholders.