Technical Program Manager, Home Infrastructure

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Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager for Home Infrastructure in Zürich for a full-time onsite role. You’ll lead infrastructure engineering programs from planning to delivery, drive migrations and system health initiatives, and reduce technical debt while coordinating with engineering, product and executive teams. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's in CS or related field or equivalent experience, 5 years in program, release, or engineering management on software and machine learning projects, and experience managing the full lifecycle of migrations and quality improvements. Preferred qualifications emphasize cross-functional and global program leadership, a strategic product mindset, self-direction, a proven delivery record, strong problem solving, and executive communication. To strengthen your application, tailor your resume to show measurable outcomes from migrations or reliability work, demonstrate navigating ambiguity, highlight cross-functional collaboration and dashboards, and prepare concise executive level narratives around risk and milestones.

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management, release management or engineering management working on software and machine learning projects.
• Experience managing the full project lifecycle for technical migrations, system health/quality initiatives, and the reduction of technical debt.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in leading programs across multiple cross-functional teams and global geographies.
• Ability to have a strategic product mindset with a track record of making high-stakes prioritization decisions.
• Ability to have a high degree of self-direction, with a resourceful approach to navigating and succeeding within ambiguous project scopes.
• Excellent delivery record, consistently hitting milestones and driving organizational goals in high-pressure environments.
• Excellent investigative and organizational skills, with a focus on solving technical and operational issues.
• Excellent executive-level communication skills, with the ability to present technical strategies clearly to various audiences.

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure engineering programs, driving strategic decision-making and technical direction to solve issues.
• Apply technical judgment to navigate engineering constraints, proposing and implementing novel solutions that optimize system performance and scalability.
• Orchestrate major technical migrations and cross-functional programs, ensuring seamless execution across various engineering teams and organizational levels.
• Drive 2-week iterative development cycles in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Technical Program Manager partners, proactively resolving technical bottlenecks to maintain velocity.
• Synthesize data-driven insights and performance dashboards to provide crisp, executive-level communication regarding program health, milestones, and strategic progress.