Technical Program Manager II, Consumer Shopping Quality, Commerce - Google
Pittsburgh, PA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience managing technical projects.
- Experience with software products and feature development in an engineering environment.
- Experience with analyzing data to influence decisions with technical teams.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience managing execution and high quality product delivery.
- Experience in commerce or payments.
- Experience managing engineering projects with heavy cross-team, cross-functional interactions/implications.
- Experience developing and implementing processes.
- Ability to identify and drive process efficiency improvements.
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 manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead software engineering projects in one of our core programming languages. You will also influence teams that design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software. In addition, you will plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate clearly with project stakeholders.
Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Learn and build expertise in new processes and technical applications.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to introduce internal applications and process changes of varying complexity.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Managers on the design of tools and workflows to maximize quality impact per effort. Work collaboratively with feature teams on surface launches across a diverse area ranging from price insights to web result ranking and diversity.
- Prioritize and manage projects and deliverables effectively, and quickly adapt projects to changing processes and requirements.
- Analyze quality and performance, process efficiency, identify areas of improvement, and drive appropriate action to resolution.
