Technical Program Manager, Safety Compliance

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in safety certification (e.g. IEC 60950-1, IEC 62368-1, UL 1642, UL 2054), including 2 years of experience with consumer electronics.
• Experience with safety hazard identification and risk analysis, including means for mitigation.
• Experience with international regulatory certifications consumer electronics.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in an Engineering or technical field.
• Experience with regulatory processes related to launching mass produced consumer electronics.
• Experience with product safety analysis and investigation and product recall.
• Experience working with other regulatory/voluntary certification activities including but not limited to materials compliance (e.g. RoHS, REACH), energy efficiency (e.g DOE, NRCan, EU ErP Directive, Energy Star), EMC/RF/SAR (e.g. FCC, CE), and with IEEE 1625.
• Ability and experience coordinating team members from multiple disciplines to complete needed compliance processes and documentation.
• Direct ability to perform safety testing.
  
  

About The Job

Google’s projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it’s your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project’s progress and deadlines.

As the Safety Compliance Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that Google Consumer Hardware products meet all applicable hardware safety standards requirements, follow industry best practices, and are ready to succeed in the market. You will work closely with Product Counsels, Product Design Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Wireless Engineers, Manufacturing Partners, Supply Chain and Operations to ensure Google Consumer Hardware products are in full compliance. In addition to supporting product development, you will also be able to help shape Google’s best practices and processes certifying new products.

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

• Drive safety and certification requirements across development teams, testing labs, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
• Troubleshoot compliance issues, coordinating solutions with internal and external engineering teams and partners/suppliers.
• Define and oversee hardware certification test requirements and validate testing reports for accuracy, completeness, and ensure all mandatory requirements are properly accounted for in filing packages.
• Communicate certification status and issues in a clear, succinct, and timely manner to all impacted teams.
  
  

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