Technical Program Manager, Maps Geo Data

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.

As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you will 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 will explain 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 will manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.

Responsibilities

• Manage large projects from concept to launch; develop and coordinate realistic project estimates, plans, or metrics, work and communicate effectively with Engineering, Product Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Operations and customers.
• Setup and manage in-house/extended workforce project execution teams with associated processes to ensure successful completion of the program.
• Understand Google products, internal tools, and processes and leverage those to push automation and increase work efficiency, people management and contributing to the program management community.
  
• Monitor, measure and communicate project progress, potential risks/delays and team performance to program teams, executives and other sponsors. Lead cross-office collaboration and resolving any site-related differences.
• Contribute to global company-wide planning processes that include budgeting, project prioritization, headcount planning, forecast management and variance analysis.