Electrical Engineering Program Manager, Pixel Watches

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience with consumer electronics development.
• 2 years of experience managing projects.
• Experience with electrical engineering or hardware engineering.
  
• Experience with consumer electronics.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in improving processes, plans, and all things that are simply broken.
• Experience in shipping high-volume/high-quality products.
• Knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.
• Ability to lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors against plans.
  
• Ability to join and drive several tasks at once, and generally do whatever it takes to ship a product.
• Ability to travel as needed.

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

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.

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 maintain an internal hardware electrical development schedule in alignment with the overall program schedule.
• Work with electrical managers, leads and cross-functional teams to align on milestones.
• Drive tool, fixture and fabrication schedules to support NPI Builds, engaging directly with vendors.
• Work with Engineering Program Managers/Leads to identify, track, and define mitigations on cross-functional issues impacting electrical design efforts.
• Drive electrical program meetings on system integration, architecture definition, schematic and layout discussions and bring key partners together to enable decision making.