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Senior Lead Technical Program Manager, Core AI Foundations

Google
senior
Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

senior

Posted

June 16, 2026


Total Compensation
€340,000
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€134,000
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Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management. 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  • Experience forging trusted partnerships with engineering teams to create a collaborative and a dynamic culture.
  • Excellent business acumen, innovative thinking, and an entrepreneurial spirit, along with the ability to solve ambiguous, real-world problems using data and technology.
  • Exceptional strategic thinking, negotiation, and communication skills, with experience partnering with and advising senior executive leadership.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Technical Program Managers, fostering a culture of excellence and acting as a multiplier for the team's capabilities.
  • Navigate extreme ambiguity to define, own, and drive multi-year technical strategies, road maps, prioritization, and execution plans.
  • Lead critical programs from ideation to launch, acting as a strategic advisor to senior leadership while driving transparency and organizational accountability.
  • Partner at the executive level (Director/Vice President) with engineering, product, and cross-functional leaders to architect and deliver complex, and high-quality serving systems.
  • Identify systemic risks, untangle complex cross-organizational dependencies, and streamline execution across broad functional boundaries.

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.

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