The posting
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program or project management.
- 5 years of experience in new product introduction, product operations, or supply chain management.
- Experience in hardware product life cycle and hardware manufacturing.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in consumer hardware operations and hardware manufacturing, including hardware bill of materials, process design, assembly and test processes.
- Experience in developing and presenting business reviews and executive summaries for stakeholders.
- Demonstrated proficiency in quantitative reasoning, analytical thinking, and complex problem-solving.
- Proven ability to guide global, cross-functional teams, while overseeing vendor management and extended workforce manufacturing.
- Ability to do domestic and international business travel up to 20%.
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.
As a New Product Operations Program Manager, you will be the primary manufacturing and operations interface for hardware products. You will work with Google’s engineering and product teams during the new product introduction phase to deliver optimal product cost, quality and delivery strategies. You will drive all program activities with the manufacturing partner to ensure on time delivery of development builds and successful product ramp. You will guide operation teams to prepare and execute throughout the lifecycle of the programs. You will often lead special projects that would require planning, data analytics, process design, problem solving and coordination across multiple functions and various levels of leadership.
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.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute development NPI builds and ensure these products transition to production according to specific cost, quality and capacity targets.
- Lead cross-functional operations team to plan and manage new product introduction of consumer hardware products.
- Use technical judgment and operational experience to drive project outcomes, build consensus, develop trusted relationships, remove roadblocks and resolve conflicts.
- Drive cross-functional teams to create new supply chains or optimize existing supply chains to deliver optimal product cost, quality and delivery.
- Manage project schedules and operational deliverables, identify risks, and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders with decisions and mitigation plans.



