Job Location: Seattle, WA
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- 15 years of leadership experience in Technical Program Management, leading cross-functional teams including managers and leaders
- Experience using insights and data to inform technical platform development
- Experience leading the development of global technical capabilities in a matrixed environment
- Experience managing multiple executive stakeholders in program, project, or portfolio management
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience in leading ML/AI/Tools or Technical functions, and/or experience in Operations or Management Consulting
- Experience in project management
- Ability to define technical projects and execute within timelines and with multiple stakeholders, and to deliver projects on time and to budget
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Ability to synthesize information while managing details
- Ability to be analytically-minded and to make trade-offs
- Excellent facilitation and influencing skills cross-functionally and cross-regionally with all levels of management
About the job
As a Director for Technical Operations, you will be an excellent leader who can manage a portfolio of technical programs, develop solutions, and think beyond existing solutions/capabilities. This includes shaping the direction and future of the technical organization and leading a global team. You will be recognized as a resource for technical innovation, an expert in technical capabilities/advanced operations, and guide Geo’s technical operations execution.
You will develop the technical operations strategy for Geo Data Operations (GDO). You will initiate and lead multi-disciplinary technical projects, plan requirements with internal partners and deliver projects through the entire lifecycle. You will act as technical advisor to several project teams. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks, and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres, and it will be your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project’s progress and deadlines. You will partner with Engineering and Product teams across Geo to drive technical competency, operational performance, and global scale.
The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.
The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real world.
Responsibilities
- Guide the GDO Technical Operations leadership to define, launch, and drive operational initiatives. Demonstrate thought leadership and an understanding of how Google shapes the industry.
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Develop a network, have a sphere of influence to execute multiple programs, and be recognized as an expert in multiple functional areas.
- Translate business needs into actionable initiatives and influencing decision making, and deliver impact programs globally to evolve and transform GDO’s technical operations.
- Develop and deploy technical capabilities like Machine Learning, AI, Tools, and more to develop Geo’s operations. Design a robust operating model with partner terms to scale the capabilities and impact.
- Use technical knowledge and data driven insights to anticipate and solve Geo’s projects/problems across functional groups by creating programs and processes. Advocate for technical issues.
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.
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