Manager, Product Owner, Data Center Operational Technology Systems - Google
Redmond, WA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management.
- 3 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
- Experience working with Environmental Health and Safety or security product development and support.
- Experience working with data systems, warehousing, querying, or modeling.
- Experience working with SCRUM or Agile methodology.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certification in SCRUM.
- 6 years of experience in leadership role(s) with direct reports.
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience with product development lifecycle from ideation to launch.
- Experience owning product backlog, feature prioritization, and product roadmap.
About the job
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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
The Compliance Security and Risk Management (CSRM) team is on a mission to deliver and operate the safest, most secure, and resilient technical infrastructure. Our charter is to physically protect the people and assets that operate and support Google's Data Centers and global critical infrastructure.
As a member of CSRM, you will help develop a culture where safety, security and resiliency are integrated into every facet of Google, including the creative process. You will help us continually identify, evaluate and monitor enterprise risks that could affect business activities and provide business leaders the information they need to make critical decisions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create innovative strategies and develop industry leading programs that drive sustainable effectiveness.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Manage a high-performing team of product owners responsible for scoping, evaluating, and partnering to deploy and grow business-critical first and third-party software applications.
- Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision making, prioritization, and resource management, whereby improvements are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
- Drive measurable program performance gains correlated to execution velocity. Establish governance over prioritization decisions to ensure alignment with key performance indicators.
- Be a change advocate responsible for initiating and leading organizations through pivots needed to address shifts in business trends and priorities.
- Lead strategic planning framework for a complex program including direct influence over resourcing decisions, planning cadence, and planning stakeholders.
