Program Manager, Search Verticals and International Growth Accelerators
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Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with consumer facing products.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience managing execution and high quality product delivery.
- Experience with release management life-cycles and project milestones.
- Experience managing large-scale, dynamic technical projects, with competing resources and priorities with accountability and ownership for project lifecycle and knowledge of the tools and elements of software development cycles.
- Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members.
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.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
The Search Verticals and International Growth Accelerators plays a central role in pushing the growth agenda forward, leading by example, sharing work, connecting the dots between teams, and influencing their strategies. When successful, we will see more users benefiting from Search more often which leads to measurable growth in our products.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications.
- Determine phasing and metrics associated with program lifecycle that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship (e.g. effective deployment of machine and people resources), including near- and long-term objectives.
- Determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making.
- Anticipate change management requirements that are required by program stakeholders.
- Build trusted relationships with program stakeholders, including managing expectations of executive cross-functional leads and ensuring they have the insights they need to make effective decisions.
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