{"id":14244,"date":"2012-05-11T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=14244"},"modified":"2014-01-24T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:23:22","slug":"google-jobs-2012-regional-lead-of-program-management-for-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/google-jobs-2012-regional-lead-of-program-management-for-emerging-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Jobs 2012: Regional Lead of Program Management for Emerging Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This position is based in Lagos, Nigeria or Nairobi, Kenya.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The area: Knowledge<\/h3>\n

There is always more information out there, and the Knowledge team has a never-ending quest to find it and make it accessible. We’re constantly refining our signature search engine to provide better results, and developing offerings like Google Instant, Google Voice Search and Google Image Search to make it faster and more engaging. We’re providing users around the world with great search results every day, but at Google, great just isn’t good enough. We’re just getting started.<\/p>\n

The role: Regional Lead of Program Management for Emerging Markets<\/h3>\n

Google’s projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus. As a Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it’s your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project’s progress and deadlines.<\/p>\n

As Regional lead of Program Management for Emerging Markets, you\u2019ll lead the regional Ops team during deployment of relevant Google products in your region. You will provide the leadership, decision-making ability and impeccable business judgment to drive multiple complex projects and to lead large teams of vendors\/partners. Your responsibilities will include managing strategic Emerging Market efforts such as self-sourcing GPS vehicle tracking devices to create traffic layer on Google Maps. This includes concept definition, implementation, pilot execution, and (if successful) scaling it across the countries in your region. Managing the support operations (i.e., quality assurance, chat support, creation of websites, etc.) content acquisition for all Emerging Market products such as Trader, Confucius, etc. This needs support for multiple editions in several different languages.<\/p>\n

Feet-On-Street operations for content acquisition, training, and data quality improvements. Product evaluations i.e., managing evaluation of content in products or editions (e.g., Google News, Trader, Confucius). Localization of key Google products in local languages such as Swahili, Amharic, Afrikaans, Zulu, Pidgin, etc. through the Google Translator Community (GTC) program building and maintaining dashboards to track progress of key initiatives. Successful performance in this role requires balancing strategic and operational demands, as well as excellent multi-tasking, problem-solving and communication skills. You will be a key member of the Cross-functional Emerging Markets leadership team of your region and report directly to the head of Program Management for all Emerging Markets.<\/p>\n

Job Responsibilities:<\/h4>\n