Senior Technical Program Manager Lead, Search Verticals and Translate

Senior Technical Program Manager Lead, Search Verticals and Translate

Google place Mountain View, CA, USA

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• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in technical program management.
• 5 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• 5 years of experience in working with consumer-facing product organizations.

• 10 years of experience in managing cross-functional technical programs.
• Ability to interact with technical and non-technical audiences, spanning all functions and organizational levels.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand the technical context of programs you drive and to contribute to technical discussions that affect your programs.
• Excellent influencing, team building skills with the ability to deliver solutions in a highly complex, always changing, and nebulous environment.
• Excellent organizational, investigative, prioritization, communication skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent complex interactions with geographically disparate teams.

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 Search Verticals and Translate Team (SVT) works on some of the most compelling and frequent consumer information seeking needs across entertainment, sports, recipes, language, music, weather and more, powering over a third of search traffic. These rich experiences help fuel human passion (e.g., sports, media, fandom), deepen human connection (e.g., translate) and provide critical information (e.g., elections, weather, crisis).

As a Senior Technical Program Manager Lead, you will be leading teams to solve strategic problems. You will navigate ambiguity, drive effective execution, partner effectively with executive leadership, and manage complex stakeholder relationships. In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on.

In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $227,000-$320,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Lead a distributed team of Technical Program Managers (TPgMs) to drive strategy, planning, operations and execution of the team's top program priorities.
• Be the trusted program owner for the Search Verticals and Translate portfolio, proactively de-risking delivery of committed objectives and key results (OKRs) and managing execution of the corresponding portfolio to deliver in the context of larger Search goals.
• Bring technical, business and program experience to drive critical prioritization and velocity across the the…