**Minimum qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with consumer facing products.
**Preferred qualifications**:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience managing execution and high quality product delivery.
- Experience with release management life-cycles and project milestones.
- Knowledge of the software development life-cycle.
- Ability to be an influential member of an integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members.
**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 Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
As a Program Manager for Real World Journeys, you will improve how the team helps users discover and determine things to do on the weekend, destinations, places to stay, and how to get there. The team drives growth by building positive experiences that help people take an idea and turn it into a full plan (e.g., making a reservation, booking flights and hotels, etc.). The team also collaborates across Search and in existing verticals, while also building across vertical experiences.
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.
**Responsibilities**:
- Manage programs, define milestones and success criteria, resource allocation and successful on-time delivery.
- Develop tools and processes to improve software engineering productivity.
- Communicate schedules, priorities, and status to the company.
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.