System Engineering Program Manager, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of engineering program management, team lead and/or product design engineering experience.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 20% of the time.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Consumer Electronics experience in NPI product development, phase gate approach, and shipping high volume/high quality product.
• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes, and operations planning.
• Strong team player and creative thinker with the ability to lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors against plans.
• Strong ability to capture the big picture quickly and focus on key points.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for improving processes and plans.
  
  

About the jobA 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.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage development Nest hardware products and drive the overall tactical execution and strategy of the team.
• Drive product development processes and phase gate reviews with the cross-functional teams.
• Develop and manage program schedules and resource needs with engineering and operations teams.
• Interface between contract manufacturers and cross-functional engineering and operations teams driving builds and managing build schedules, budgets, and performance. Influence and drive strategic contract manufacturer (CM) development efforts and establish long term partnerships.
• Travel internationally to lead development builds at CMs.
  
  

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