Senior System Engineering Program Manager, Pixel Hardware

Company: Google
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in technical program management. Experience with consumer electronics hardware. Experience in hardware NPI build management. Ability to travel internationally up to 20% as required. Preferred qualifications: 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects. Experience with product life-cycle, tools, processes and operations planning, with a passion for improving processes, plans, and anything that is simply broken. Experience shipping high volume and quality products. Ability to lead technical teams, cross-functional groups, and vendors against plans as a strong team player and creative thinker. Ability to quickly capture the big picture, focus on key points, with excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to drive multiple tasks simultaneously and do whatever it takes to ship a product. About the job As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you will use your technical expertise to lead multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You will work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company and equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers. You will play a key role in ensuring that product requirements are captured. You will manage cross-functional communication and technical dependencies with other Google teams, creating and driving the overall program schedule, quality, resources, identifying and mitigating risk at all stages, and defining the overall structure and meeting protocols between teams.The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,000-$278,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Own the development of pixel hardware programs and drive the overall tactical execution and strategy of the team. Mobilize cross-functional teams to design, build, validate, and launch system solutions, while managing development risks and issues to meet system build milestones, cost, and manufacturability. Drive product development processes and phase gate reviews with the cross-functional teams, managing program budgets and travelling internationally to lead development builds at supplies/manufacturing partners. Develop and manage program schedules and resource needs with engineering and operations teams, while proactively implementing process improvements to streamline product development. Communicate project status to stakeholders and leadership, lead resolution on key technical issues, and interface with development partners and cross-functional engineering and operations teams to drive builds while managing schedules, budgets, and performance.

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