Technical Program Manager, Search Velocity and AI Acceleration

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.

As a Technical Program Manager for Search Velocity, you will lead the strategic evolution of the Search organization during its most significant architectural shift. You are pivotal in migrating the organization from legacy development processes to a high-velocity AI in Search framework. This role requires a visionary approach to partner with senior leadership in redesigning the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for the AI era, transitioning toward agentic development platforms and a skills based model. Utilizing advanced analytical and quantitative methods, you will predict operational trends and incubate new autonomous, agentic processes to deliver exceptional product experiences at the speed of AI.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Reduce Search feature time-to-launch by mapping the SDLC, identifying systemic friction points, and eliminating recurring bottlenecks in code authoring, technical reviews, and approvals.
• Lead initiatives to automate and shorten approval timelines, agentic development platforms to streamline infrastructure tasks.
• Accelerate model onboarding and rebasing by driving automated rating adoption, minimizing manual evaluations for complex, high-value use cases.
• Own the Search Velocity portfolio, proactively de-risking Objectives and Key Result (OKR) delivery and managing complex stakeholder relationships across the broader organization to ensure strategic alignment.
• Partner with senior leadership to redesign the SDLC for the AI era, establishing unified project definitions and streamlined approval paths to minimize coordination toil.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 10 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience managing AI/ML or Large Language Model (LLM) production workflows (such as model release cycles, prompt engineering/bundling, or automated evaluation/rating systems).

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience managing complex cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with agentic development platforms.
• Experience building trust across multiple levels of the organization and driving forward progress across functions, especially through varied viewpoints.
• Ability to use quantitative insights to root-cause delays and implement systemic solutions that transcend organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional skills in influencing and creating clarity within ambiguous or rapidly changing environments. Able to bridge communication gaps between deeply technical engineering teams and cross-functional leadership teams (e.g., Product Management, Marketing, Finance, and Search Leadership).