Hardware Accessibility Program Management Lead, Product Inclusion - $187,000 a year

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:

3 years of experience in UX Design, Program Management, or Product Management in Consumer Hardware.
3 years of experience with prototyping and development for hardware and software products.
Experience with Product Inclusion, Accessibility, or Equitable Design.


Preferred qualifications:

5 years of experience managing or leading design teams or design consulting.
Experience designing and developing innovative consumer hardware devices.
Ability to communicate user research and early-stage ideas with rapid visualizations.
Ability to be organized, manage multiple workstreams, and prioritize the most impactful work.
Excellent hardware technical engineering and problem-solving skills.
Excellent executive communication skills and passionate about building good working relationships across different organizations.

About the job

Our mission is to make Google Devices and Services inclusive and equitable experiences for everyone. We partner with teams across Google, industry partners, and local community organizations. As a Hardware Accessibility Program Management Lead, you will build the tools, metrics, and processes that help teams design, prototype, and test their product ideas to ensure that they work equally well for all our users. You will also focus on accessibility and inclusive hardware design processes to improve our accessibility, inclusion, and equity.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary range between $174,000 - $187,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

Support our roadmap for inclusion and accessibility feature technology and research in hardware products, components, and packaging.
Partner with teams to define and prototype product innovation which will increase hardware product accessibility and helpfulness.
Improve processes, share best practices, and publish reporting/metrics which will help teams deliver on these goals.

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.