Google

Senior Technical Program Manager, Search Access Team, Google Search

Google$192K — $278K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of program management experience
  • 8 years of technical program management, software engineering, or system architecture experience emphasizing infrastructure migrations and API lifecycle rollouts
  • Experience ensuring legal, regulatory, or data governance compliance for API platforms
  • 8 years managing cross-functional projects
  • Interest or experience in generative AI frameworks or Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Ability to serve as the primary technical triage authority for enterprise partners under strict constraints.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional efforts to implement a seamless transition from legacy unmanaged full-web search with zero downtime
  • Oversee technical and commercial migrations for high-value enterprise partners to the unified Web Search Service (WSS)
  • Act as the primary triage authority for enterprise partners, maintaining compliance with legal obligations and syndication SLAs
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and leadership teams to unify modernization strategies and manage project risks
  • Incorporate generative AI and autonomous workflows to enhance migration tracking and operational efficiency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs
  • Generous paid time off policies
  • 401(k) plan with company matching
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Work from a preferred location, either New York City or Mountain View, CA.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in program management.
  • 8 years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, or system architecture, specifically driving infrastructure migrations, system deprecations, or API lifecycle rollouts.
  • Experience delivering technical programs that enforce legal, regulatory, or data governance compliance for API platforms.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  • Demonstrated interest or experience in integrating generative AI frameworks, Large Language Models (LLMs), or autonomous workflows directly into program tracking, reporting, and operational task automation.
  • Proven ability to act as the primary technical triage authority for critical, high-friction enterprise partners (such as financial or sovereign clients) navigating strict constraints.


About the job

The Search Access team defines, secures, and modernizes access to Google Search for the global ecosystem. Serving as the primary entry point for Google's search technology, we own the platforms, APIs, and compliance architectures that expose our search index externally. Our portfolio manages billions of daily queries, protects critical syndication revenue streams, and implements rigorous regulatory guardrails while delivering Google's next-generation AI search capabilities to external developers, enterprises, and partners.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Search Ecosystem, you will serve as the single point of accountability directing high-stakes platform migrations and strategic syndication compliance initiatives. Your mandate is orchestrating the comprehensive global deprecation of legacy unmanaged full-web search. Simultaneously, you will lead the end-to-end technical and commercial onboarding of partners onto the flagship Web Search Service (WSS).

In this role, you will safeguard strategic alliances, enforce strict legal and regulatory compliance, and align cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and partnerships. To maximize operational velocity, you will pioneer the adoption of generative AI and autonomous workflows across all workstreams. You will brings extensive experience leading large-scale API migrations, deep comfort with distributed system architectures, and the executive presence to influence senior cross-functional leaders and external partners.

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

US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional execution to sunset legacy unmanaged full-web search, enforcing traffic-shaping to ensure a zero-downtime migration.
  • Govern end-to-end technical and commercial migrations of high-value enterprise partners onto the unified Web Search Service (WSS) and modern commercial frameworks.
  • Serve as primary triage authority for high-friction enterprise partners while implementing auditable guardrails to satisfy legal obligations and strict syndication SLAs.
  • Partner with search engineering, product, legal, cloud, and ads leadership to align modernization strategy, track risk burndowns, and deliver executive briefings.
  • Integrate generative AI and autonomous workflows to automate migration tracking, eliminate operational toil, and boost program velocity.

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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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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Revenue
$182.5 billion
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