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.

As a Supplier Quality Technical Program Manager, you will work directly with supplier partners managing critical aspects of electrical systems supplier quality. You will collaborate with hardware development and designers, commodity managers, manufacturing engineers, data center engineers, data center operations, and drive supplier failure analysis. In this role, you will establish true root cause(s) and drive systemic corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions. You will extract and analyze data from supplier facilities and our data centers to verify performance and drive improvements.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000-$208,000 + 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 for new hire 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with supplier partners managing critical aspects of electrical systems supplier quality. Collaborate with hardware designers, commodity managers, manufacturing engineers, and drive supplier failure analysis.
• Establish true root cause(s) and systemic corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions.
• Provide analytical leadership to statistically connect production line metrics, tests, and quality audits to field performance.
• Manage validation of supplier’s build/test processes and ensure they are meeting Google requirements. Validate supplier product life cycle deliverables defined by Google and leverage industry quality standards.
• Conduct supplier audits, inspect production facilities/lines, articulate quality improvement activities to reduce variability, improve predictability, streamline lead time, improve output quality, Factory Witness, and Acceptance Testing. Partner with suppliers to solve complex product quality and process issues across the full product lifecycle.