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.

The Play Games team is dedicated to delivering the best gaming experiences to billions of users globally. We are embarking on an ambitious multi-year plan to drive significant growth in the multi-billion-dollar Play business through Google Play Games, our new unified Gaming platform we launched this year.

In this role, you will be working at the intersection of AI and Gaming, bringing AI to gamers and game developers alike.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Influence the team's speed, focusing on rapid iteration, testing, and successful product launches. Success is measured by materially increasing the team's velocity and getting products into users' hands quickly.
• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your technical expertise, ensuring Technical Program Management practices are applied in a high-urgency AI environment.
• Drive alignment across teams, organizations, and align cross-functional stakeholders on decisions to reach consensus on metrics, engineering scope/feasibility, etc.
• Dive into and resolve critical roadblocks by adopting the perspective of a Product Manager or Engineer as needed. Identify and clear product and engineering blockers to independently manage the program lifecycle.
• Drive prioritization, milestones, software schedules. Articulate project schedules, risks, technical trade-offs, and critical decisions to technical leads and cross-functional partners. Define governance and metrics for optimization and manage organizational change and rollout plans accordingly.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in Technical Program Management.
• Experience in managing end-to-end projects in a technical/software engineering environment.
• Experience in coordinating, managing and facilitating communication between teams.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering organizations.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working within the gaming industry or with large language models (LLMs)/DeepMind/AI technologies.
• Experience with product release.
• Ability to produce frameworks and documents that communicate status, scope, timelines, task planning, action items, risks, issues, project dependencies, test planning, or rollout planning.
• Ability to interact with technical and non-technical groups.
• Excellent leadership, negotiation, organization, problem-solving and communication skills.

• Influence the team's speed, focusing on rapid iteration, testing, and successful product launches. Success is measured by materially increasing the team's velocity and getting products into users' hands quickly.
• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your technical expertise, ensuring Technical Program Management practices are applied in a high-urgency AI environment.
• Drive alignment across teams, organizations, and align cross-functional stakeholders on decisions to reach consensus on metrics, engineering scope/feasibility, etc.
• Dive into and resolve critical roadblocks by adopting the perspective of a Product Manager or Engineer as needed. Identify and clear product and engineering blockers to independently manage the program lifecycle.
• Drive prioritization, milestones, software schedules. Articulate project schedules, risks, technical trade-offs, and critical decisions to technical leads and cross-functional partners. Define governance and metrics for optimization and manage organizational change and rollout plans accordingly.

• Excellent leadership, negotiation, organization, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to produce frameworks and documents that communicate status, scope, timelines, task planning, action items, risks, issues, project dependencies, test planning, or rollout planning.
• Ability to interact with technical and non-technical groups.

• Bachelor's degree in Software Development, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in managing end-to-end projects in a technical/software engineering environment.
• Experience in coordinating, managing and facilitating communication between teams.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Experience working within the gaming industry or with large language models (LLMs)/DeepMind/AI technologies.
• Experience with product release.