Product Cost Manager, Hardware

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with supply chain operations, sourcing/commodity management, or contract manufacturing.
• Experience building cost models, analyzing cost trends, and assessing opportunities and risk for new or early-stage product development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Science, MBA, or other advanced degree.
• 10 years of experience in procurement and supply chain.
• Experience with design and engineering field in consumer electronics hardware development, and with complex projects and changing priorities.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure, and work effectively in a team environment, and to create supply solutions to optimize cost.
• Ability to translate analysis results into business recommendations, and influence stakeholders or present to multiple audiences.
• Excellent communication, excel and data analysis skills.

A 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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

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.

• Serve as the Product Cost Manager lead and Single Source of Truth (SSoT) for cost, assigned product family, and deliver financially health products.
• Oversee the development and tracking of accurate product level cost models from inception/concept design stages and through entire product lifecycle.
• Utilize industry knowledge, analytics, competitive industry data and other inputs to identify cost inefficiencies and opportunities to identify realistic and challenging cost targets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify negotiation, design, feature and operational cost opportunities and track through to execution.
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative cost information. Build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale.