Director, Engineering, Google Home Solutions

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Google is looking for a highly experienced candidate with a strong technical background to join our Smart Home and Home Automation team. As a leader, you will be responsible for aligning Smart Home and Home Automation services through technical execution across multiple engineering teams. Your goal will be to drive the execution of programs on time and with high quality while also leading the outlook and roadmap for Smart Home Services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively to ensure the success of projects with high complexity. If you are passionate about creating meaningful consumer experiences in the Smart Home ecosystem, this role is for you.

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

15 years of experience with Smart Home based service.
10 years of people management experience.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in consumer electronics or home automation and familiarity with IoT and and home automation.
Experience with Google-scale infrastructure, google3, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and open source systems.
Experience driving cross-functional initiatives from strategy to execution and ability to inspire and influence diverse teams to work toward a common goal.
Excellent technical skills in design, programming, debugging, and production management. Full stack, Distributed systems expertise.
Ability to operate in a complex and matrixed environment. Highly collaborative and inclusive, take in multiple perspectives, good listener.
Excellent business acumen to help Google and Partners build a sustainable business.

About the job

Google builds Smart Home products and services that allow our consumers to know what’s happening in their home, easily engage with entertainment, help around the house and make sure everyone’s safe and sound. We do this by surfacing the best of Google’s technologies into beautiful consumer experiences that are simple, fast, smart, and personal, making them indispensable in solving meaningful consumer problems.

Our outlook is a vibrant Smart Home ecosystem, delighting both the users and partners on the Google Home Platform. Google Home focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from thermostats and EV chargers, to tablets and smart displays. The Google Home team develops and designs technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

Align Smart Home and Home Automation services through technical execution across multiple engineering teams. Drive the execution and landing of programs on time and with high quality.
Lead the outlook and roadmap for Smart Home Services including migration to Google’s infrastructure. Anticipate business needs and drive alignment of what the local team does versus the business needs.
Lead multiple teams and influence throughout the organization, to transform the technical outlook to reality. Align technical strategy across multiple cross-functional and cross-product area teams.
Communicate and collaborate across time zones, challenges, and tactics. Attract and grow talents through the organization, and give them exposure to other teams/time zones.
Land projects with high cross-functional complexity and ambiguous requirements or scope. Build inclusive teams and a culture where everyone can grow.

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Company

Google

Job Posted

a year ago

Job Type

Full-time

WorkMode

On-site

Experience Level

13-17 Years

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