Senior Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Applied AI at Google
Kirkland, WA
$240,000–$334,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Kirkland, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on managing large-scale AI infrastructure programs within Google Cloud's Applied AI division, with a particular focus on capacity planning — designing and running the processes to prioritize, request, and secure compute resources for generative AI products. The work involves coordinating across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams, resolving infrastructure escalations, and reporting program health to senior leadership. It suits an experienced technical program manager with a background in cloud capacity management and AI/ML workloads.
Senior level · 10+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 40 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 25–60
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $188,486 (middle half $139,113–$224,920). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is posted with two possible locations: Sunnyvale, CA and Kirkland, WA. The primary CBSA is set to San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (listed first), but candidates may also be based in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro (CBSA 42660).
Compensation is stated as $240,000–$334,000/year plus a 25% bonus target and equity — the bonus and equity are not captured in the comp fields, which reflect base salary only.
The degree requirement is 'Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — treated as no hard degree gate.
SOC classification is a judgement call: Technical Program Manager roles sit between 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other — the standard TPM mapping) and 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). This role is explicitly individual-contributor in framing (no direct-report or budget ownership language), so 15-1299 is preferred, with 11-3021 as the runner-up.
Skills listed under 'Preferred qualifications' (cross-functional project management, AI/ML capacity planning, GenAI workloads, Vertex AI, Go-to-Market strategy) are not hard gates. 'Program management' (10 years) and 'cloud capacity management' are the only minimum-qualification-gated skills.
The 'cross-functional project management' and 'Go-to-Market strategy' entries are borderline methodology/responsibility items rather than named tools, but they appear as concrete, assessable experience requirements in the preferred qualifications and are retained for that reason.
Ignored 5 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): program management, cloud capacity management, cross-functional project management, AI/ML capacity planning, Go-to-Market strategy.
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