Engineering Program Specialist Team Lead, Pixel

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.

As an Engineering Program Management Team Lead in Pixel team, you will be a key member of the product engineering team, managing a multi-tiered team to help drive product development and bring hardware products to production. You will ensure that engineering/product requirements are captured and translated into action to keep new product development moving on time, cost, and quality. In this role, you will grow in the fluid and time sensitive environment and offer flexibility and organizational strategies that enable the team and business to improve. You will partner with cross-functional leadership to drive portfolio execution, enhance resource efficiency, and deliver automated process improvements that align with business objectives.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Responsibilities

• Build a growth-oriented Engineering Project Specialist organization, across multiple locations. Enable execution and drive delivery across a portfolio of programs.
• Set the direction for the Engineering Project Specialist team by outlining goals and objectives, evaluating and providing oversight across multiple projects and programs, identifying and mitigating systemic issues across the program portfolio, and defining program controls/governance/standards.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders, cross functional stakeholders, to align on strategy and road map, improve processes, simplify execution, manage Objectives and Key Results, release on time, and bring tooling for efficiencies.
• Lead and mentor team members. Identifying areas for process improvement, automation, cost and resource savings to achieve business goals.
• Bring visibility and strengthen communication across teams, to executives, also other key stakeholders by highlighting risks, building mitigation plans.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with direct reports.
• Experience working with one or more of the following: Product Engineering, Product Management, Reliability/Quality, Manufacturing Operations, Engineering Program Management (EPM).

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with hardware development and manufacturing processes (e.g. SMT/FATP, BOM structures, and change control concepts, etc), vendor relations, and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) in Asia.
• Experience running programs and managing teams developing consumer hardware.
• Experience in change management to drive business and experience in executive-level communication.
• Experience in people management along with the ability to multitask and prioritize when working on multiple tasks or projects.