Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience in program or project management.
Experience leading and managing the suppliers contractual compliance for the Commerce product area.
Experience supporting vendor selection, contract negotiations, on-boarding, and overall vendor operations strategy.
Experience with creation and track status of Purchase Orders, including monitoring monthly accruals, budget.
Preferred qualifications:
2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
Experience managing execution and high quality product delivery.
Ability to ensure that vendors are consistently meeting agreed upon contractual SLAs.
Ability to lead regular vendor business reviews.
Ability to work with Program Managers, Engineers, Product Managers, Partnerships team to understand business requirements, implement new processes, and contribute to ongoing process improvements.
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.
As a Program Manager, you'll lead software engineering projects in a core programming languages and influence teams that design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software. You will plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate with project stakeholders.
Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use AdSense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.
Responsibilities
Manage technology programs, defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation and on-time delivery.
Conduct data analysis to make business recommendations in areas such as cost-benefit, invest-divest, forecasting, and impact.
Work with cross-functional teams.
Communicate schedules, priorities, and status to all levels in the company.
Manage relationships with key stakeholders.
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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
