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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience across all phases of a product development from prototype to mass production to end of life.
- Experience with product life cycles, tools, processes, and operations planning.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience in consumer electronics manufacturing, with a background in managing NPI product builds.
- Experience in coordinating and supporting cross-functional teams on engineering sample management processes.
- Experience in spreadsheet formulas, with an understanding of logistics and international shipping.
- Familiarity with Bill of Materials (BOMs).
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritizing effectively, and managing relationships with ODM, JDM, and CM suppliers.
- Excellent organizational skills, including proficiency in managing spreadsheets and coordinating across teams and functions.
About the jobA 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 an Engineering Project Specialist, 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 and 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 and Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Own the management of New Product Introduction (NPI) build matrices, ensuring alignment with project timelines and goals.
- Optimize resource utilization by balancing allocation needs across validation, qualification, and production requirements.
- Foster effective communication and collaboration between engineering teams and contract manufacturers (CMs) to drive efficiency.
- Track material readiness, identify potential bottlenecks, and implement solutions to maintain on-time delivery schedules.
- Analyze and refine build readiness processes, documentation, and training materials to enhance team performance.
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 .
