Technical Program Manager, New Product Introduction, Product Quality

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Minimum qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in program management, engineering management, developing consumer electronics, or shipping products in consumer electronics or other devices.
• Experience with managing functional engineering teams and working with OEM partners.
• Experience in device/hardware manufacturing, product design, device management, and channel/partner ecosystem.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with product quality planning (PQP).
• Experience with Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) process and interacting with functional engineering team.
• Knowledge of consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations, and working with contract manufacturers (CMs).
• Understanding of technology, at the system and commodity level as well as software and usability.
• Ability to lead complex, strategic, and operational initiatives.
  
  

About The Job

As a Technical Program Manager, you will work closely with hardware and software engineers, product managers, contract manufacturers, original device manufacturers (ODMs), and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to get high-quality products built, tested, and released on time. You will coordinate many fast-changing, moving parts and get them to come together as a product. Additionally, you will contribute excellent communication skills and answer questions about schedules, quality, and progress updates. You will be responsible for identifying and managing risks, making sound judgments about quality, and stopping (or speeding up) production at the right time. The Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world’s most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world’s information—hardware. Our Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Consumer Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams on quality initiatives, take on ambiguity, build consensus, be an outstanding communicator (both written and verbal), and influence at all levels of the company.
• Develop and manage hardware development project schedules with engineering teams and communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Identify dependencies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute, mitigate risks and issues, and meet system build milestones, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of engineers.
• Understand detailed implications of decisions and recommendations, and be able to communicate recommended solutions to the product development team, all the way up through the executive leadership of the company.
  
  

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