Technical Program Manager II, Home Product Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in hardware development, and in consumer electronics development through the NPI life-cycle.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in leading technical projects in consumer electronics or related companies.
  
• Ability to identify and resolve cross-functional and inter-team issues quickly, foresee technical risks and manage them effectively.
  
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence decisions effectively across all project stakeholders and levels.
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills with effective attention to detail.
  

About the job

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.

In this role, you will collaborate with other multi-disciplinary teams to maintain functional relationships to co-develop and structure future requirements, maintaining clear documentation/communication of goals, risks, status, and prioritized feature requests and bugs.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Manage project operations from prototype builds through ramp and serve as technical lead in resolving complex issues during bring-up and life of product.
  
• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers in the development and support of New Product Introductions.
  
• Lead production technical readiness. Identify, prioritize, and manage key technical changes and risks of a given product. Ensure all technical risks associated with mass production are identified and closed or mitigated to enable the quality ramp of a product.
  
• Review assessment of the robustness of Engineering and Manufacturing solutions to meet the requirements of the operation and the implementation of any additional solutions to mitigate any risks to the plan.
  
• Advise the product line for the life-cycle of the product. Ensure operations technical readiness for all phases of the introduction cycle.