Lead Technical Program Manager, Contextual Search AI, Search

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
• Experience with consumer desktop and mobile applications.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• Experience in software development.

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.
The Contextual Search team’s mission is to grow Search by unlocking the power of visual and contextual understanding to answer user questions, making context a default part of the Search experience. This will be a people management role where you will both have direct reports and personal project deliverables.
In this role, you will own the execution of complex, multi-quarter charters for Contextual Search, driving agentic and multi-modal roadmaps across Web, Google Assistant, and Chrome. You will architect scalable operational frameworks to ensure initiatives meet critical milestones, managing risks and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
Beyond execution, you will scale the technical program management organization by staffing, coaching, and mentoring a high-performing team. Partnering with engineering, you’ll resolve technical dependencies like latency and API integration to deliver seamless, stateful user 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.
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

• Lead complex, multi-quarter charters for Contextual Search, driving roadmaps for agentic capabilities, third-party partnerships, and multimodal inputs across Chrome and Web surfaces.
• Architect standardized processes for tracking, risk management, and reporting to ensure projects consistently meet critical milestones.
• Align Product, Engineering, and UX leadership, managing complex dependencies, data governance risks, and resource advocacy across cross-product area partnerships.
• Define and staff the annual technical program management organization, providing coaching and supporting careers through performance and promotion cycles.
• Partner with engineering to resolve technical blockers like latency and streaming API dependencies to implement stateful, high-velocity companion experiences.

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