Technical Program Manager Lead, YouTube, OTT
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of technical program management experience.
- 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
- 5 years of experience managing projects.
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of supervisory experience managing other Technical/Program Managers (T/PgMs) and driving a culture of scaled execution.
- Experience driving business, technical, infrastructure, or organizational transformation.
- Experience in the TV/Media Engineering domain.
- Ability to handle chaos associated with nascent/fast growing products and navigate ambiguity with ease while introducing the right level of structure.
- Ability and willingness to drive technical discussions or resolve technical issues with Engineering leads.
- Excellent software engineering program management skills (i.e. program and portfolio management, etc).
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.
The Over the Top (OTT) team is looking for a lead Technical/Program Manager (T/PgM) to help transform the next era of streaming TV with a focus on scaling feature delivery, content acquisition, infrastructure, and operational maturity. In this role, you will develop and manage a team while driving and scaling programs across the entire product and technical organization.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,000-$305,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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Responsibilities
- Drive transformational feature delivery, acquisition infrastructure, and operational efficiency.
- Develop and coach a team of YouTube (YT) T/PgMs to drive scaled execution and systems thinking behaviors.
- Define processes for speeding up velocity in feature development and content delivery time to market without sacrificing quality and reliability for users and remove unnecessary processes.
- Manage a portfolio of technical projects, drive multi-quarter roadmaps, and communicate to a complex web of executive stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers (SWEs), Product Managers and cross-functional organizations to drive software development and manage technical dependencies.
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