Technical Program Manager III, Google Public Sector Customers

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• 5 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.
• Experience in working with matrixed organizations.
• Experience in working with the Public Sector with National, Regional or Local agencies.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in driving projects in a changing environment.
• Experience of translating data and trends into recommendations, strategies, and insights with the ability to solve problems.
• Knowledge of program management approaches and methodologies.
• Excellent project management skills.

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 utilize technical expertise and communication skills to manage cross-functional teams, mitigate risks, and ensure clear stakeholder alignment.Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Prioritize program goals, understand and translate other stakeholder's needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
• Define the scope of projects and develop, execute or manage project plans for supported programs.
• Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for deviations.
• Identify, communicate, and collaborate with stakeholders within one or more teams to drive impact and work toward mutual goals. Build, maintain and enhance business, operational, and management dashboards.