Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
  
• 5 years of experience in networking, data center, or telecom operations.
• 5 years of experience in project management and process improvement in the telecom or networking space.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  
• Experience in people management.
• Experience working in complex organizational settings (e.g., ambiguity, shared accountability, geographic dispersion, etc.).
• Excellent quantitative and presentation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, strong business acumen, and effective communication skills.

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

In this role, you will be responsible for the system level design and deployment of the global fiber optic network that connects Google's data centers to the world. This network allows Google to function as a global computer, ensuring continuous flow of data to and from all corners of the planet.

Responsibilities

• Implement communications standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications.
  
• Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
  
• Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making. Ensure governance structure effectively exposes and mitigates dependencies.
  
• Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity which affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it’s used effectively.
  
• Manage a program portfolio solving problems that drive high business impact for the organization and product area.