Technical Program Manager, Maps Geo Data

Role Overview: As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you will utilize your technical expertise to lead intricate, multi-disciplinary projects throughout their entire lifecycle. You will collaborate with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and effectively communicate with cross-functional partners across the organization. Your role will involve explaining analyses and recommendations to executives, as well as discussing technical trade-offs in product development with engineers. Key Responsibilities: - Manage large projects from concept to launch, including developing and coordinating realistic project estimates, plans, or metrics, and working effectively with Engineering, Product Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Operations, and customers. - Set up and manage in-house/extended workforce project execution teams with associated processes to ensure successful program completion. - Understand Google products, internal tools, and processes, and utilize them to enhance automation, increase work efficiency, manage people, and contribute 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 resolve any site-related differences. - Contribute to global company-wide planning processes, including budgeting, project prioritization, headcount planning, forecast management, and variance analysis. Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience in program management. - Experience with software development and managing execution of programs that span multiple engineering teams. - Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (preferred). - 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects (preferred). - Experience in mapping technologies or mapping operations (preferred). - Experience in defining and driving measurements and data quality metrics. - Ability to use technical judgment to solve software engineering challenges involving bug triage, source control, continuous integration, etc. - Ability to be influential on a highly integrated team of technical and non-technical members as well as working with or managing third-party vendors.,