Cloud AI Senior Technical Program Manager I

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year
  
  

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.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.
  
  

About The Job

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.

Join our Cloud AI team and shape the future of AI development.

As a Technical Program Manager (TPM), you will guide the delivery of Generative AI products for enterprise customers. You will partner with product managers, engineers, and leadership to define roadmaps, prioritize features, dive deeper into the technical and product specifications, and drive complex technical projects to successful release.

In this role, you will navigate a fast-paced environment where your technical depth, product understanding, and program management expertise directly influence Google’s AI strategy. If you are passionate about AI, skilled at managing complex programs, and ready to go deep technically on the product specifications, we want to hear from you. Help us empower developers to build the next generation of intelligent applications.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

Responsibilities

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• 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.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .