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Leadership Technical Program Manager II, Chrome

Leadership Technical Program Manager II, Chrome

2 Weeks ago • 8-13 Years • Product Management

About the job

Summary

As a Leadership Technical Program Manager II at Google Chrome, you'll lead complex engineering projects, manage teams, and drive program execution. Responsibilities include implementing communication standards, establishing program review cadences, leading governance structures for effective decision-making, identifying change management opportunities, and defining a program portfolio that targets business impact. You will work across multiple teams to improve efficiency and utilization of resources. The role requires extensive technical expertise and leadership skills, focusing on the development and improvement of the Chrome browser across various platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS).

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Must have:

8+ years program management experience
5+ years people management experience
Bachelor's degree in technical field
Cross-functional project management
Excellent communication & problem-solving skills

Good to have:

Experience in Enterprise software
Ability to handle ambiguity
Experience mentoring & managing teams

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in program management.
5 years of experience in people management, including experience mentoring and managing a team.

Preferred qualifications:

8 years of experience managing cross-functional and team projects.
Experience in the Enterprise software industry.
Ability to handle ambiguity, to work collaboratively with internal and partner contacts and to influence cross-functional teams.
Excellent technical, problem-solving, negotiation, communication, and organizational skills.

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.

Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.

Responsibilities

Implement communications standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications.
Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making. Ensure governance structure effectively exposes and mitigates dependencies.
Identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and which affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it’s used effectively.
Define and manage a program portfolio solving problems that target business impact for the organization and product area.

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