Technical Program Manager Lead, Google Pixel
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 20, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of Product Design Technical Program Managers to develop and manage hardware development project schedules with Engineering teams and communicate project status to stakeholders.
- Identify dependencies and collaborate with a cross-functional team to execute, mitigate risks and issues, and meet system build milestones, cost, quality, and manufacturability.
- Understand consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations, and work with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
- Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution among a cross-functional team of Engineers, Generate the ideas required to solve the technical subjects.
- Develop playbooks, tools and processes to collaborate engineering productivity and own technical relationships with cross functional vendors and partners.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in the phone product NPI development process.
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional (including industrial design, product design, electrical engineering, global supply management and manufacturing) technical programs.
- 3 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
- Experience with mechanical development lead times.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience shipping high-volume and high-quality products in consumer electronics or other devices.
- Experience managing functional engineering teams and working with Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners.
- Experience in device/hardware manufacturing, product design, device management and channel/partner ecosystem.
- Knowledge of consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
- Ability to lead critical and operational initiatives.
- Ability to travel as needed.