Product Design Engineering Program Manager, Pixel Watches
Product Design Engineering Program Manager, Pixel Watches
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with consumer electronics.
- Experience with product design engineering or mechanical engineering.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in consumer electronics and shipping high volume/high quality products.
- Ability to lead Technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors against plans.
- Ability to drive several tasks at once and ensure timely shipment of a product.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Passion for improving processes and plans, with excellent knowledge of the product life-cycle, tools, processes, and operations planning.
- Excellent communication skills.
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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
Responsibilities
- Define, drive, and own the overall mechanical and electro-mechanical component development process from concept to launch for new Google Hardware (HW) products.
- Interface between vendors and product engineering teams, setting and managing schedules and milestones. Balance schedule, cost, performance, and user experience trade-offs.
- Drive mechanical design reviews with cross functional teams and tool releases for all mechanical components in the product.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate key focus points and next steps with engineering, vendors, operations, quality, and management. Improve and maintain processes that ensure team members understand and execute on all objectives.
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution. Drive failure analysis and triage for issues. Synthesize data into a clear story and communicate to stakeholders and organizations at all levels.
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