Technical Program Manager, Wireless and Radio Frequency, Pixel

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in hardware engineering and project management in consumer products life cycle with cross-functional teams.
• 3 years of experience in hardware electrical engineering systems, wireless, RF, antenna related module engineering, or project management.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in product development, project management, and/or engineering management.
• Experience in consumer electronics, phones, systems, wireless/RF, and antenna hardware development.
• Knowledge of electrical engineering systems, wireless/RF hardware development, manufacturing processes, and collaboration with Contract Manufacturers (CM).
• Ability to lead the collaboration among technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors in accordance with plans.
• Excellent communication, organizational execution, and leadership 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.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally with internal teams and external suppliers to set strategy, streamline productivity, execute on schedule, and be responsible for managing/communicating status and issues.

The Google 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Pixel wireless/Radio Frequency (RF) hardware projects from product definition stage to design lock for mass production with cross-functional teams. Partner with RF/Antenna/De-sense leadership to streamline team effectiveness.
• Drive wireless execution schedule from concept to launch, and provide executives status on RF/Wireless/De-sense issues with risk registers.
• Provide structure for new Network Threat Intelligence (NTI) initiatives for wireless technologies, and pull management requests (e.g., daily standup, budgeting).
• Manage internal teams advocating wireless team needs and performance, lead critical wireless related launch gating issues, track wireless performance metrics, and support competitive analysis.
• Plan carrier sample preparation with global Compliance, Carrier, Field teams, and communicate project status to stakeholders and leadership.
  
  

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