Program Manager, Procurement and Commercial Solutions

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of program management experience on technical cross-functional projects, including planning, execution, estimation, risk management and stakeholder management.
• 2 years of experience working with a software development team developing and reviewing technical requirements, design documents, bug triage, and setting technical goals.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree.
• Experience helping teams measure and improve operational excellence, product excellence, equity, and accessibility.
• Experience with agile methodology and program increment planning.

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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

We are looking for a Program Manager to join our Procurement and Commercial Solutions (PCS) Project Management Organization (PMO) team in the Core Corp Eng organization.

In this role, you will play a crucial role in helping the development and maintenance of the next generation of contracting and procurement solutions for Google's extensive user base. You will develop various critical contracting tools for managing Google's operations.You will be contributing in developing and maintaining both the Contracting Life-cycle Management platforms and Buying Hub, which serves as Google's central procurement platform. This platform simplifies the buying process and facilitates access to necessary goods and services.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage integrated schedules and project plans working across UX, engineering, product teams, and analyze processes, identify opportunities for improvement, define requirements, and collaborate cross-functionally and cross-product areas to improve processes and tools.
• Drive product excellence through assembly of project delivery success criteria and overseeing progress towards those success goals, and partner with business stakeholders and technology teams to define project goals, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Communicate status to leadership and stakeholders, identifying roadblocks and proposing solutions.
• Partner with engineering team, support the development of contracting tools, or procurement platform partnering with business stakeholders (e.g., legal, finance, product areas).