Leadership Technical Program Manager, Evaluation Strategy
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program or project management.
- 5 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
- Experience managing the full life-cycle of technical projects, experience developing technical roadmaps, and working directly with engineering teams on system design, development, and delivery.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with survey systems and program or impact evaluation.
- Experience working with data pipeline architecture or measurement systems.
- Experience in data analysis, data quality assurance, and organizational measurement frameworks.
- Familiarity with the social impact, non-profit, or philanthropic sector.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. 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're equally at home explaining 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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
Google.org, Google’s philanthropy, brings the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges combining funding, product donations and people to support not good enough communities and provide opportunity for everyone.
We engage nonprofits, social enterprises and civic entities who make a significant impact on the communities they serve, and whose work has the potential to produce scalable, meaningful change.
The Research and Evaluation (REv) team advances Google.org's mission by developing research-informed strategies, establishing robust evaluative practices, and delivering actionable insights to amplify our collective impact.Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.
Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of evaluation program managers, fostering their career growth and skill development in a supportive, high-performing environment.
- Manage the strategic roadmap for the team's evaluation systems, ensuring it aligns with organizational priorities. Partner closely with DOT (Dotorg Technology Team) to influence their technical roadmap, co-develop solutions, and ensure our evaluation needs are effectively prioritized and implemented.
- Lead a governance structure that drives effective decision-making between teams. Translate technical project deliverables into clear work streams and actionable plans for the evaluation team, ensuring timely delivery.
- Build alliances with and drive alignment between your team, the Google.org Technology team, and executive leadership. Serve as a highly credible leader, coherently representing your program portfolio and advocating for your team's needs.
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