Technical Program Manager, Google Play Business Generation

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in Process Management, Leadership, and Software Development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with product testing and releases.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering organizations with dependencies, stakeholders, and partners.
• Ability to produce project plans and documents that communicate status, scope, timelines, task planning, action items, risks, issues, project dependencies, test planning, or rollout planning.

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.
• Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps, and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web.
• As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships.
• They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop.
• The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Manage the organization's portfolio for planning and prioritization, partner with Engineering and Product, drive Roadmap/OKR planning, milestones, and the feature development lifecycle for business-critical projects.
• Design processes and introduce governance to improve communication.
• Partner with engineering and product management directors and TLMs to support organization execution, and drive innovation and manage technical dependencies across the stack.
• Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.