Program Manager III, Software Engineering, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience managing programs and processes across distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical related field.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience problem-solving across distributed, fast-paced and constantly changing environments.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

As a Program Manager, you’ll lead software engineering projects and influence teams that design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software. 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. Using your extensive program management and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the delivery of your programs.

Google Cloud accelerates organizations’ ability to digitally transform their business with the best infrastructure, platform, industry solutions and expertise. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage technology programs, defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation, and successful on-time delivery.
• Work on massive distributed, large-scale systems, storage solutions, applications, and new platforms.
• Exercise technical fluency in working with large, cross-functional teams.
• Develop processes to improve software engineering productivity.
• Communicate schedules, priorities, and status to all levels in the company.