Cloud AI Senior Technical Program Manager I

About the role

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Be an innovative thinker capable of navigating organizational complexity. Highly motivated TPM with exceptional problem-solving skills and deep contextual knowledge to lead our generative AI delivery efforts, spanning agent platforms, gemini enterprise, and model deployment.
• Manage programs with deep technical and product understanding, applying program management to complex AI contexts while providing thought leadership.
• Manage end-to-end life cycles, from requirement gathering and risk assessment to feature prioritization.
• Partner with engineering and program manager to define workstreams, resource plans, project milestones. Drive feature planning, building cohesion and alignment across all stakeholders.
• Provide clear project status updates to audiences, including cross-functional partners and leadership. Manage high-impact customer engagements, advocate new evaluation methodologies, and define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for data quality and success.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications:
• - Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• - 8 years of experience in program management.
• - Experience with AI model training, testing, evaluation, and tuning processes, Large Language Model (LLM) release cycles and timeline management.
• - Experience in KPIs for AI products.
• - Experience with ML/AI principles and their distinctions from traditional software development, and experience translating technical concepts into strategy.
• Preferred qualifications:
• - 10 years of experience managing complex cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• - Experience working on agentic frameworks and products.
• - Experience managing customer relationships and promoting best practices.
• - Demonstrated track record of managing work streams and ensuring alignment on key milestones and strong problem-solving and strategic thinking skills to navigate rapidly changing programs.
• - Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Pay & Benefits

US: $192000 - $279000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits