Senior Engineering Manager, Sports, Search

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Description For Senior Engineering Manager, Sports, Search

Google Search is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Sports Search initiatives. This role combines technical leadership with people management, focusing on building products that help users follow their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. The position requires expertise in software development, team leadership, and project management.

The role involves managing multiple teams and locations, overseeing large-scale projects, and contributing to product strategy. You'll be working in areas including information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and distributed computing. The team's mission is to reimagine search functionality while maintaining Google's universally accessible and useful experience.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for building and leading teams that develop full-stack search technologies, leveraging Google's technical advancements. You'll need to balance foundational investments with exploratory initiatives while managing business priorities. The position offers the opportunity to make an impact on billions of users globally through Google Search's sports-related features.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, proven leadership abilities, and a strong technical background. Experience with Machine Learning is valued, as is the ability to work in a complex, matrixed organization. This role provides an exceptional opportunity to shape how people access and interact with sports information through one of the world's most-used products.

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Responsibilities For Senior Engineering Manager, Sports, Search

  • Provide technical leadership and manage a team that builds full-stack search related technologies and distinguishes features by leveraging Google's technical advancements
  • Evolve the image of the team with a balanced portfolio of foundational investments, exploratory bets, and run the business priorities

Requirements For Senior Engineering Manager, Sports, Search

Python
Java
JavaScript
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)
  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role
  • 5 years of experience in people management, supervision/team leadership role
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field (preferred)
  • 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization (preferred)
  • Experience in Machine Learning (ML) (preferred)

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