
Staff Technical Program Manager, Release Operations Manager, Google Beam
San Francisco, CAJob$192–278K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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The Staff Technical Program Manager will lead release operations for Google Beam, maturing its software and ensuring high-quality, consistent releases across software stacks and form factors. The role oversees validation and testing, balances quality with resourcing costs, optimizes fleet efforts, and owns software delivery relationships with external OEMs and co-development partners. It also manages a team responsible for release, testing, and fleet operations.
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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
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Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
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Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
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Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
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Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
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Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
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Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
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Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience in program management.
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5 years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
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Experience testing software on custom hardware.
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Experience with OS and applications software release management.
Preferred qualifications:
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8 years of experience managing cross-functional or team projects.
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Experience scaling a custom hardware and software integrated product.
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Experience managing vendors and individuals who manage vendors.
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Experience maintaining working relationships with external partners (e.g., OEMs, software co-development).
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Experience with quality assurance (QA) and automated testing.
About the job
As the Stability and Release Manager for Beam, you will drive the maturation of our product’s software, ensuring a high-quality experience before it reaches our end users. Leveraging your expertise in both OS and applications software, you will oversee timely, consistent releases across multiple software stacks and form factors. You will be responsible for the validation and testing of our software experience, maintaining our rigorous quality bar while effectively balancing resourcing costs. Your scope will include optimizing our on-the-ground fleet efforts and owning critical software delivery relationships with external OEMs and co-development partners to unlock seamless product development and delivery.
Google Beam is a true-to-life new communication technology from Google that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the Google Beam team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Deliver software to customers and partners consistently and of high quality.
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Maintain and cultivate external relationships with key partners, owning software delivery and quality (e.g., OEMs, co-development partners).
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Enact a testing strategy across our software development process that maintains the highest quality bar while balancing resourcing costs.
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Optimize on-the-ground efforts across Google and partner locations to unlock software development and delivery.
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Manage a team of Technical Program Managers leading our release, testing, and fleet operations areas, cultivating this team to maximize their impact on the product.
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,728 open Technical Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$192–278K/yr
- California median$168–236K/yr767 salary ranges
- US median$135–220K/yr3,364 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $235K, is 17% above the California median midpoint ($201K) — in the middle half of Technical Program Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 903 open Technical Program Manager jobs in California and 3,728 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Technical Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,850 postings).
- Education
- 1,051 of the 3,728 open Technical Program Manager jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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