Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) or circuit board design.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience shipping high-volume and high-quality products.
- Experience with consumer electronics.
- Ability to guide technical teams, cross-functional groups and vendors.
- Ability to travel internationally as needed.
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.
The Google Pixel Watch team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful wearable experience. The team works on supporting the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software and hardware to build global wearables and create transformative experiences for users across the world.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $138000 - $198000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Define, drive and own the overall system development process from concept to launch for new Google Hardware products with focus on custom PCBAs and associated electrical validation.
- Interface between vendors and product engineering teams, setting and managing schedules and milestones. Balance schedule, cost, performance and user experience trade-offs.
- Drive system-level design reviews with cross-functional teams and critical releases to meet system level schedules.
- Develop, maintain and communicate key focus points and next steps with engineering, vendors, operations, quality and management. Improve and maintain processes that ensure team members have what they need to understand and execute on all objectives.
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution. Drive failure analysis and triage for issues. Synthesize large amounts of data into a story and communicate to stakeholders and organizations at all levels.
