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Senior Program Manager I, Google Cloud

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Compensation
$188–274K/yr
Location
Kirkland, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Program Manager will lead complex, multidisciplinary projects and coordinate stakeholders across offices and time zones. The role supports Google’s AI and Infrastructure organization, managing program portfolios, governance, communications, prioritization, and resource stewardship. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience and eight years of program or project management experience; cross-functional project management experience is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Program ManagementProject ManagementCross-Functional Project Management

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Program or Project Management Experience8 Years Cross-Functional Project ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

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This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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In 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:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

  • 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

  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in program or project management.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

About the job

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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Implement communications standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications.

  • Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and Resource Stewardship, covering the effective deployment of machine and people resources, ensuring improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.

  • Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making.

  • Define and manage a program portfolio that solves high-business impact problems for the organization.

  • Build alliances with cross-organization and cross-functional stakeholders who have similarly aligned priorities.

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How this job compares

Set against the 11,415 open Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$188–274K/yr
  • Washington median$124–188K/yr594 salary ranges
  • US median$118–202K/yr8,937 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $231K, is 51% above the Washington median midpoint ($153K) — in the top quarter of Program Manager salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 642 open Program Manager jobs in Washington and 11,415 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (9,639 postings).
Education
5,045 of the 11,415 open Program Manager jobs (44%) 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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