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Program Manager, Google Access
San Francisco Bay Area, US - Information Services, Internet
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus. As a Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate large, complex projects, including developing and coordinating realistic project estimates, plans and/or metrics. Facilitate project management across multiple time zones, cultures, products and organizations.
• Monitor, measure and communicate project progress, potential risks and delays and team performance to the project team, executives and stakeholders. Exercise judgment regarding project risk and priority, and escalate appropriately.
• Drive cross-product area and cross-functional collaboration and solutions.
• Understand and stay informed about Google products, internal tools, capabilities, systems, resources and processes to identify opportunities where they can be leveraged to increase work efficiency and effectiveness of the project team.
• Design and implement scalable and automated systems, processes and organizational structures to increase work efficiency, effectiveness and risk mitigation.
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  Minimum qualifications
  
• BA/BS degree in Business Administration, Economics or other quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of program management experience in the technology or other highly-technical industries (e.g. aerospace industry) either in corporate IT, professional services or product development.
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  Preferred qualifications
  
• Experience managing large-scale and dynamic technical projects, with competing resources and priorities.
• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, tools, processes and operations planning.
• Strong analytical skills and a demonstrable bias toward action. Ability to self-start and self-direct projects when necessary.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; meticulous attention to detail.
• Fluent in French.
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  Area
  
  The Google Access team works to make Internet access more powerful, accessible and affordable for all. We also work to develop the next-generation technologies that will improve the lives and businesses of our millions of users around the planet. Want to change the world? Good. So do we
  
  Program Management
  
  Lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects and usher them through the entire lifecycle.
  
  Learn more about our Program Management roles
  
  Mountain View (Global HQ)
  
  Want to stop talking about changing the world and actually do it? At Google Mountain View, our global headquarters, we make products for hundreds of millions of users around the world that change the ways they create, share, communicate, collaborate and do business.
  
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