Program Manager III, Software Engineering, Commerce

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience managing large-scale software programs in a global technology company.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• Ability to balance competing priorities and manage several time-sensitive projects with minimal direction in a fluid environment.
  
• Excellent investigative, problem solving, and critical thinking skills with excellent business judgment.
  
• Excellent verbal, written, and formal presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.

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.

The future of retail is being reimagined, and Google is leading the charge. We connect millions of shoppers with businesses every day, driving business and growth across the globe. Our mission is to empower shoppers to discover the perfect products, compare prices effortlessly, and make informed purchasing decisions, all within a delightful and intuitive shopping experience.

In this role, you will lead programs involving personalized shopping feeds, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered style advice, and enabling visual search to help users find exactly what they need. You will partner and collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and UX designers to bring these innovative shopping features to life.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications.
  
• Determine phasing and goals associated with program life-cycle that address continuous improvement, including near and long-term objectives.
  
• Determine and collect data required to govern programs and drive stakeholder decision-making.
  
• Lead annual and quarterly planning for resources, funding and Objectives And Key Results (OKRs).
  
• Build trusted relationships with program stakeholders, including managing expectations of executive cross-functional leads and ensure to have the insights to make effective decisions.