Skip to content.

 

Kirkland, WA - $221k -$311k Full Time Posted by: Google Posted: Friday, 23 January 2026
 
 
Benefits
  • 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program or project management.
  • 6 years of experience leading management consulting programs at a consulting firm.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives to improve software development velocity and efficiency.
  • Experience in the end-to-end product development process (SDLC).
Preferred Qualifications
  • 10 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.

As a Head of SDLC Improvement for Google Cloud Platform, you will play a critical role in defining how we build cloud services at scale. You will act as a strategic force multiplier for our engineering and product leadership, focused on two primary outcomes: accelerating the velocity of software development and ensuring we deliver cloud services that are secure and compliant.

In this role, you will diagnose bottlenecks/limitations in our software development lifecycle, design improved mechanisms, and govern these mechanisms to achieve continual improvement. You will combine the strategic excellence of a executive management consulting with the product operations/change management expertise required to move our engineering organization forward.

The US base salary range for this Full time position is $221,000-$311,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities
  • Lead strategic initiatives to identify and remove friction in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), enabling engineering teams to deliver features faster without compromising quality or security.
  • Lead strategic initiatives to ensure that Google Cloud follows best practices for designing for security and compliance.
  • Partner with VP-level stakeholders across product management, engineering, operations, and sales to design and deploy a more scalable SDLC mechanism.
  • Land, operate, and continually improve SDLC mechanisms to enable development speed, security and compliance.

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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Kirkland, WA, United States of America
IT
$221k -$311k
Google
Click apply
JS26489_25303_CB7DEDDE540159B1BEDC929BA5121BF7
1/23/2026 5:59:39 AM
We strongly recommend that you should never provide your bank account details to an advertiser during the job application process. Should you receive a request of this nature please contact support giving the advertiser's name and job reference.