Technical Program Manager, Google Home and Tablets

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with client platform and middleware software development in Java or C++.
• 5 years of experience tracking and translating engineering discussions into actionable engineering tasks and next steps.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to work as an individual contributor and to contribute as part of a larger team.
• Independent with the ability to conceive, accept responsibility for projects, and see them through to completion.
• Excellent project management skills, demonstrated by a track record of delivering successful platform software.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organizational 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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As a Google Home Platform Technical Program Manager, you will own the software engineering schedule and product deliverables for our next-gen platform service and integration with key external partners. In this role you will be part of exciting new software platforms and developer experiences, integrating with the latest consumer technologies.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical projects or programs, working closely with Google engineers and technical staff to develop and track release milestones and schedules for the many moving parts that need to come together.
• Develop and drive Software release schedules with well-defined milestones.
• Assess the quality of releases through monitoring of incoming bugs and code changes to identify quality issues and trends.
• Develop tools and processes to improve software engineering productivity and own technical relationships with vendors and partners.
• Work closely with external and internal partners to manage and deliver shared objectives.
  

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