Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- 2 years of experience working with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Contract Manufacturers (CMs), or Joint Development Manufacturers (JDMs) during New Product Introduction (NPI) phases.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with hardware development lifecycles, manufacturing processes, and vendor relations.
- Knowledge of BOM structures and change control.
- Ability to manage complex spreadsheets, prioritize multiple tasks, and apply investigative thinking to solve problems.
- Ability to thrive in a fluid environment, quickly adapting to changes and proactively overcoming challenges as they arise.
- Ability to lead, drive meetings, lead strategic initiatives, and guide teams toward project milestones.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills to effectively coordinate across various teams, job functions, and stakeholders.
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.
In this role, you will be shaping the future of technology. You will collaborate with some of the resourceful minds in the industry to bring groundbreaking hardware innovations to life. You will navigate engineering requirements and grow in a changing environment that will be crucial to delivering products that redefine what's possible and impact billions of users worldwide.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Define, manage and build matrix configurations for New Product Introduction (NPI) cycles, collaborate with Engineering and reliability teams to ensure all validation and testing requirements are met.
- Oversee comprehensive material plans and mitigate availability risks, while managing purchase orders and coordinating material drives to ensure timely delivery to manufacturers.
- Plan and optimize the allocation of engineering development devices across various teams (validation, qualification, product testing), ensure needs are balanced against budget constraints.
- Drive packout readiness and manage shipping logistics, including trade compliance and shipment tracking, to ensure devices reach their final destinations on schedule.
- Act as the primary bridge between internal engineering teams and external manufacturers, providing build support (on-site or remote) and develop SOPs to improve process efficiency.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
