Senior Technical Program Manager, Search Access Team, Google Search

Senior Technical Program Manager, Search Access Team, Google Search

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in program management.

• 8 years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, or system architecture, specifically driving infrastructure migrations, system deprecations, or API lifecycle rollouts.

• Experience delivering technical programs that enforce legal, regulatory, or data governance compliance for API platforms.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in integrating generative AI frameworks, Large Language Models (LLMs), or autonomous workflows directly into program tracking, reporting, and operational task automation.
• Proven ability to act as the primary technical triage authority for critical, high-friction enterprise partners (such as financial or sovereign clients) navigating strict constraints.

About the job

The Search Access team defines, secures, and modernizes access to Google Search for the global ecosystem. Serving as the primary entry point for Google's search technology, we own the platforms, APIs, and compliance architectures that expose our search index externally. Our portfolio manages billions of daily queries, protects critical syndication revenue streams, and implements rigorous regulatory guardrails while delivering Google's next-generation AI search capabilities to external developers, enterprises, and partners.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Search Ecosystem, you will serve as the single point of accountability directing high-stakes platform migrations and strategic syndication compliance initiatives. Your mandate is orchestrating the comprehensive global deprecation of legacy unmanaged full-web search. Simultaneously, you will lead the end-to-end technical and commercial onboarding of partners onto the flagship Web Search Service (WSS).

In this role, you will safeguard strategic alliances, enforce strict legal and regulatory compliance, and align cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and partnerships. To maximize operational velocity, you will pioneer the adoption of generative AI and autonomous workflows across all workstreams. You will brings extensive experience leading large-scale API migrations, deep comfort with distributed system architectures, and the executive presence to influence senior cross-functional leaders and external partners.

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 about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution to sunset legacy unmanaged full-web search, enforcing traffic-shaping to ensure a zero-downtime migration.
• Govern end-to-end technical and commercial migrations of high-value enterprise partners onto the unified Web Search Service (WSS) and modern commercial frameworks.
• Serve as primary triage authority for high-friction enterprise partners while implementing auditable guardrails to satisfy legal obligations and strict syndication SLAs.
• Partner with search engineering, product, legal, cloud, and ads leadership to align modernization strategy, track risk burndowns, and deliver executive briefings.
• Integrate generative AI and autonomous workflows to automate migration tracking, eliminate operational toil, and boost program velocity.

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