Google

Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, AI/ML

Google$240K — $333K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of leadership experience, with or without direct reports.
  • Experience designing organizational processes and governance frameworks for engineering organizations.
  • Experience building AI features or platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing Technical Program Management team.
  • Drive successful delivery of Drive's Generative AI roadmap and initiatives.
  • Orchestrate complex programs across federated and matrixed teams to resolve dependencies and bottlenecks.
  • Design and implement robust engineering operating processes and governance frameworks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave.
  • Retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Employee assistance programs and mental health resources.
  • Professional development opportunities and training programs.
Full Job Description
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X The application window will be open until at least October 01, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
  • Experience designing organizational processes, business planning cycles, or governance frameworks for engineering organizations.
  • Experience in building AI features or AI platforms.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  • 10 years of experience in product, engineering, operations, or technical consulting roles.
  • Experience rolling out new processes or tools to resistant stakeholders and driving adoption through clear value proposition and empathy.


About the job

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

Google Drive is committed to creating a secure, intelligent, beautiful, and universally accessible means of storing, sharing, organizing, and finding information. With billions of users, deep integration across Google's first-party products (including Workspace, Search, Chrome, and Gemini), and a thriving ecosystem of thousands of third-party integrations, Drive is the market leader in content management. Our immediate top focus is leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) to fundamentally revolutionize how users interact with their content, unlocking unprecedented value from their personal and enterprise knowledge.

The Drive Technical Program Management (TPgM) team plays a critical role in bringing this GenAI-driven vision to life. We stand at the nexus of strategic planning, engineering leadership, and cross-functional orchestration. We help define the technical roadmap, proactively mitigating risks across highly distributed teams, and ensuring seamless execution from ideation to launch.

AI will change the future of work in profound ways, and our products- Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Vids and Meet are at the forefront. From pre-computed summaries for email threads, summaries for meetings, and videos created from a document using lifelike AI avatars, our AI opportunity is huge. Our mission is to meaningfully connect people so they can create, build, and grow together and as part of the team you can build how productivity tools should work 5-10 years into the future. You will work with model builders (Google DeepMind), work with exceptional leaders, and have the ability to impact billions of users across the world.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $240000 - $333000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers.
  • Drive the successful delivery of Drive's critical Generative AI roadmap, including our agentic initiatives. Act as a strategic thought partner to Engineering and Product leadership to translate highly ambiguous AI goals into concrete, accelerated delivery plans.
  • Orchestrate complex, interdependent programs across highly federated and matrixed teams. Lead focused initiatives to swarm dependencies, resolve cross-Workspace architectural tensions, and eliminate execution bottlenecks early.
  • Design and implement robust product and platform engineering operating processes. Streamline business planning cycles (OKRs), drive the adoption of developer enablement tools (DevAI), and establish scalable governance frameworks that increase iteration velocity across hundreds of engineers.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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