Technical Program Manager, Google Pixel

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience in program management, developing consumer electronics, factory management, or engineering management
• Experience with consumer hardware, cross-functional teams, including engineering, industrial/product design in module development, vendor development/management

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with shipping high-volume and high-quality products in consumer electronics or other devices
• Experience with managing functional engineering teams and working with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners
• Knowledge of consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs)
• Ability to lead complex, strategic, and operational initiatives, break down complicated tasks into easier/smaller sub-components, organize/guide teams to work on situations, and swiftly adjust plans as situations evolves
• Ability to travel as needed

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.

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.

• Develop and manage hardware development project schedules with Engineering teams and communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Identify dependencies and collaborate with a cross-functional team to execute, mitigate risks and issues, and meet system build milestones, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
• Understand consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations, and work with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of Engineers. Generate the ideas required to solve the technical subjects.
• Develop playbooks, tools, and processes to collaborate engineering productivity and own technical relationships with cross-functional, vendors and partners.