Technical Program Manager, Pixel Software, AI/ML, Data and Experiences

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.

There is little doubt that the Android and Pixel teams make a major impact on the mobile industry. Our devices set the highest possible bar for a quality user experience and our software reaches more than a billion users worldwide. Successful Technical Program Managers on the team epitomize the philosophy that huge gains are made in the long run by focusing on the right details now.

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 are equally at home describing 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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

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

• Drive full lifecycle development of large-scale ML models while enforcing strict AI governance, safety, and compliance standards prior to ML/product deployment.
• Partner with legal, policy, compliance, and engineering stakeholders to navigate competing organizational priorities, establish cross-functional alignment, and translate complex technical requirements into repeatable operational protocols.
• Manage complex technical interdependencies across distinct workstreams, synchronizing data engineering pipelines with model training schedules to drive swift execution, maintain defensible release plans, and proactively mitigate key risks.
• Optimize engineering efforts and maximize resource efficiency across teams by consolidating redundant baseline Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning initiatives and building robust, shared data pipelines across enterprise use cases.
• Act as a quality advocate with internal teams and external ODM partners, managing status communications, escalating critical issues, and defining schedule inputs to deliver user experiences.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in program management of ML or AI model training/evaluation, and experience with traditional software development.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with both early-stage ML research and managing ML production systems (deployment and launches), as well as some familiarity with hardware lifecycle management and development practices.
• Experience with the software development life cycle, and assisting in commercializing technical product launches.
• Experience with program management for projects that span multiple teams geographically disparate locations.