Technical Program Manager, Server Platform

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.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

The Server Platform team works across geographies and product areas to enable teams to rapidly create and scale a fleet of standardized, best-practice-compliant services. The team is focused on removing barriers for adoption to make the platform ubiquitous. Increasing the ease of usage of the Server Platform by offering unified, seamless products and tool sets. Overall to reduce the fleet cost for products built on our platform saving money for our customers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will drive product launches, improve productivity, ensure quality standards, resolve problems, identify trends, determine and execute system improvements, and implement change.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. 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 millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive 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

• Provide the required software development and project management, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes
• Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and other engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle (build, test, and release on time)
• Use exceptional communication skills to understand and communicate both engineering issues and project strategy
• Identify gaps and drive alignment. Solve cross-functional and inter-team issues quickly
• Manage program/project schedules, identify possible issues and clearly communicate them to stakeholders