Program Manager II, Retail Store Design, Consumer Hardware

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
  
• Experience in retail environments including store design, construction/installations, fixtures and fittings, or consumer services.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• Experience working in a global environment, on visibility projects with budgets and brand or commercial impact.
• Experience in design studio project management and production.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance as well as effectively collaborate with Program Management, Design, Construction, Geography and Google business partners, vendors/manufacturers.

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.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $117,000-$172,000 + 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of assigned retail projects and related production processes to effectively execute on timelines, goals and budgets.
• Drive project schedules and communications, meeting cadence, execution of deliverables and in store fixture installations.
• Collaborate with the design and operations teams, vendors, fabricators to ensure designs are executed to specification and quality standards.
• Facilitate sampling and prototyping, identify and address issues and challenges in the printing, construction/manufacturing, testing of designs.
• Accountable to organize, record and maintain all project specific development/production documentation and specifications for integration into retail standards. Leverage practices, and tools while improving on them.