Team lead Manager, AI Experience Product Framework

About the job

The AI Experience (AIX) Product Framework team builds the foundational frameworks and user-facing architectures that power Google's next-generation, AI-first Search experiences. We are evolving Search by modernizing and scaling these core platforms to enable new interactive journeys across all AI surfaces.

As a Tech Lead Manager, you will lead a high-performing team of software engineers. You will set the architectural goal and drive technical execution for both existing and next-generation platforms, while mentoring and developing the careers of your engineers. This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineering manager or a senior technical leader ready to transition into people management, taking ownership of a critical, fully-staffed team.

Your influence will extend across Search as you partner with Product Management, UX, and horizontal platform teams. You will be a key technical voice, responsible for communicating strategy and presenting milestone launches to senior leadership.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Support, mentor, and foster career development for an established team of engineers; establish strong team health, culture, and sustained execution velocity.
• Drive end-to-end technical direction across backend serving architectures and frontend UI frameworks, steering migrations from legacy systems to next-generation AI-first stacks.
• Partner closely with Product Management, UX, and vertical and platform teams to evolve core SRP functionalities to new AI capabilities.
• Regularly articulate architectural decisions, technical trade-offs, and project execution milestones to senior leadership and cross-team partners.
• Uphold high standards for system availability, latency budgets, code health, testing, and operational reliability.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 3 years of experience with full stack development, across back-end such as Java, Python, Golang, or C++ codebases, and front-end experience including JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML, CSS or equivalent.
• 2 years of experience in a people management or team leadership role.
• Experience in any one of the following areas: backend serving infrastructure; front-end or client-side UI application architecture and feature experimentation and delivery; or team leadership, technical project leadership, or formal people management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a Tech Lead (TL), Tech Lead Manager (TLM), or Engineering Manager (EM) guiding engineers through project execution and career milestones.
• Experience with core Search serving systems (such as Superroot or GWS) or modern Search Next platforms (MaRS, Qflow, SNUI).
• Experience with C++, Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript/SFC web components.
• Experience with using experimentation to drive data-driven feature development.
• Ability to partner effectively with UX and Product partners to build complex, rich user interfaces.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting technical strategy and project roadmaps to director-level leadership.