Program Manager, Early Stage Project, X
Mountain View, CA$130k - $191kfull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Early stage geoscience AI team at X seeking a Program Manager to organize and integrate systems for experiments, partnerships, and product prototyping, while navigating ambiguity and risks.
Responsibilities
- Organize the team by coordinating workstreams, managing deadlines, driving team meetings and utilizing automation tools to reduce friction and increase velocity.
- Cultivate strong day-to-day relationships and working norms with internal teams and external partners, driving alignment and clear communication to meet shared objectives.
- Ensure clear documentation and communication to share project progress, breakthroughs, insights, and outcomes.
- Define and track performance metrics and milestones to keep the team on track.
- Act as a proxy for the General Manager when needed, using judgment and discretion to unblock decisions, identify dependencies and potential failures and represent the team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Management, or a technical field.
- 6+ years experience in high-growth tech, VC, or consulting (or 4 years with an advanced degree) with direct 0-to-1 startup experience.
- A "systems-first" mindset that prioritizes fixing underlying processes over surface-level symptoms.
- Expert proficiency in spreadsheets and analysis models to drive decision-making and project recovery.
- Mastery of modern PM stacks (Jira/Asana) and fluency in AI productivity tools.
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex technical concepts, systems, and challenges, and skill in distilling technical meetings into clear action plans.
- Experience initiating and managing strategic partnerships.
Skills
Required:Program managementPartnership managementCommunication and documentationPerformance metric definition and trackingSystems thinking
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Google X
Welcome to X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory. We create radical technologies to help solve some of the world’s hardest problems.
Welcome to X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory. We create radical technologies to help solve some of the world’s hardest problems.
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