System Engineering, Program Manager, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in engineering program management
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with consumer electronics in hardware product development, schedule planning, phase gate approach, and shipping high volume/high quality product
• Knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes, and operations planning
• Ability to capture the big picture quickly and focus on key points
• Ability to speak and write in Chinese and English fluently
• Excellent team player and creative thinker, with the ability to lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and contract manufacturers and vendors against plans
• Passion for improving processes and plans
  
  

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.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The team develops, designs, and develops 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.

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

• Drive Nest product development processes and phase gate reviews with the cross-functional teams.
• Develop and manage program schedules, budgets, and resources.
• Interface between contract manufacturers (CM) and cross-functional engineering and operation teams. Driving and managing build schedules, product quality, and product performance.
• Influence and drive the joint development of strategic CM partners.
• Travel internationally to lead development and builds at CMs.
  
  

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