Technical Program Manager, Security Engineering

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.

The Information Security Engineering (ISE) Technical Program Manager (TPM) team leads the charge in safeguarding Google and Alphabet's extensive product ecosystem. We equip developers to build secure applications across Core, Cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring users can trust our products. Our core mission includes, advocating for best practices and secure coding principles to minimize vulnerabilities across our products and services. We design and implement solutions that protect user data and infrastructure, maintaining the highest levels of security. We create scalable and efficient processes and tools to strengthen the security posture of Google and Alphabet products. ISE is at the forefront of securing AI products, and leveraging AI to scale our security solutions.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full lifecycle of complex security initiatives, from initial requirements planning with stakeholders to final deployment and launch across Google’s infrastructure as needed.
• Lead engagements with engineering partners across multiple teams to drive the adoption of centralized security solutions. Translate complex security requirements and challenges into actionable project plans, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to project timelines.
• Define, track, and report on key program metrics to demonstrate measurable risk reduction and program health to executive leadership.
• Align team-level security objectives with broader organizational engineering plans, ensuring that commitments are met on schedule and blockers are surfaced early.
• Drive the development of "well-lit paths," including self-service documentation, training materials, and codelabs, to support product teams in migrating to secure standards with minimal direct intervention.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• 5 years of experience working with or managing programs related to technical infrastructure.
• Experience with security engineering principles and practices.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 5 years of experience leading change management initiatives for technical deployments at scale.
• Proven ability to define and track technical and business metrics to measure program success.
• Contributions to the security community (e.g., open-source projects, publications, conference presentations).