Minimum qualifications:

+ Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

+ 5 years of experience in program management.

+ Experience in software testing, software quality assurance (QA), software test design, or software testing product launches.

+ Experience working on consumer electronics (i.e., consumer devices, phones, tablets, wearables, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

+ 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

+ Experience with data analytics and developing dashboards using basic programming tools or advanced spreadsheet tools.

+ Ability to close partnerships while navigating ambiguity around immature, fast moving products.

+ Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills.

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.

The Product Test team ensures exceptional customer experiences for Google's new and in-market products. Using specialized testing methodologies, we translate critical user feedback into actionable hardware and software improvements.

As a Technical Program Manager for Product Quality Assurance, you will lead, define, prioritize, and drive optimized testing for Google products to ensure an exceptional customer experience. Your responsibilities include robust test coverage, identifying gaps, analyzing escaped defects to prevent regressions, and driving critical issue resolution before key milestones.

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 $156,000-$229,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google (https://careers.google.com/benefits/) .

+ Develop comprehensive, user-centric test strategies, methodologies, and plans in collaboration with Hardware/Software partners and testing teams.

+ Conduct escaped defect analysis to optimize test plans and prevent regressions in future products.

+ Oversee the management and analysis of test results across cross-functional teams.

+ Prioritize and drive test execution, ensuring robust coverage focused on critical user scenarios and pain points.

+ Build, operate, and manage the Product QA team, monitoring performance against key product Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.