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Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Search Security

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Compensation
$240–333K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager will lead the Search Security Technical Program Management team and build scalable security programs. The role partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to shape Search Security strategy, manage security risks, and ensure governance across Search products and infrastructure. It calls for extensive program management and leadership experience, with security, search infrastructure, or cybersecurity experience preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Program ManagementLeadershipCross-Functional Project ManagementSecuritySearch InfrastructureCybersecurityStakeholder CommunicationInfluencing

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Technical Field or Equivalent10 Years Program Management Experience7 Years Leadership Experience10 Years Cross-Functional Project ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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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 in the security domain, search infrastructure, or cyber security.

  • Experience interacting with different technical and non-technical audiences spanning all functions and organizational levels.

  • Experience influencing and delivering solutions in a highly complex and changing environment.

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.

Search is in the midst of a generational transformation. We are evolving beyond a traditional search engine into a layered AI system—from AI Overviews to the rise of AI agents—that reshapes how billions of people interact with information.

In this role, you will serve as a strategic people leader capable of navigating a high-velocity environment and building scalable Security programs from the ground up. You will support a talented Technical Program Management team responsible for driving cross-organizational engineering programs that handle ambitious technical challenges. This role requires navigating ambiguity, driving execution, and partnering with senior leadership within Search and across other product areas. You will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security risks, optimizing programs to achieve product and platform goals, and ensuring robust governance across the Search ecosystem.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $240000 - $333000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Manage, mentor, and support the existing team of Search Security Technical Program Managers.

  • Provide oversight for critical security efforts for Search, drive clarity and strategic decisions with cross-functional stakeholders, and provide clear communication and visibility to leadership.

  • Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to define, shape, and evolve the long-term Search Security strategy and roadmap.

  • Apply technical, business, and program management expertise to identify, assess, track, and mitigate security risks across Search products and infrastructure.

  • Build and maintain strong, strategic partnerships with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Trust and Safety, Data Protection and Risk, Engineering, and Product Management, to drive alignment and land impactful changes.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,795 open Technical Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$240–333K/yr
  • California median$168–236K/yr771 salary ranges
  • US median$133–221K/yr3,431 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $287K, is 42% above the California median midpoint ($201K) — in the top quarter of Technical Program Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 907 open Technical Program Manager jobs in California and 3,795 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Technical Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (2,909 postings).
Education
1,031 of the 3,795 open Technical Program Manager jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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