Technical Program Manager III

• A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all.
• As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish.

About Google

That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Act as the operations technical lead for consumer hardware products from PVT/Ramp through End of Life (EOL); identify and ensure ongoing technical risks are identified and mitigated or resolved.
• Manage the operations side for line layout, line bring up, fixture buy off and line qualifications for ramp.
• Be responsible for product yield and quality performance at Contract Manufacturer (CM) sites and Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and goals for CMs for continuous improvements.
• Lead and guide CMs to strengthen their manufacturing process control, lessons learnt practice and feedback to cross functional teams.
• Drive early involvement from NPI stage (EVT, DVT, PVT) through mass production and provide design review (Tolerance Stack Up Analysis, TSA and Design For Assembly, DFA) to Engineering team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in NPI hardware manufacturing or FATP (Final Assembly, Test, and Packout) environments.
• Experience resolving technical disagreements (e.g., Failure Analysis, yield bridges, or factory Design of Experiments).

Preferred

• MBA or Master's degree in a related field of study.
• 10 years of experience working and managing international OEM partners.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Ability to travel frequently (30% or more).
• Excellent track record of managing a cross-functional team in order to achieve new product objectives of quality, yield and cost.