Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of professional experience developing technology products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading & building products in any or all of these domains: TV media consumer products, platforms.
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Track record of success in the full life-cycle of software development.

About the job
Android is Google's open-source mobile operating system that powers smartphones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, wearables and cars. Android is the world's most popular mobile platform with approximately 3 billion monthly active devices worldwide.

Android TV OS is revolutionizing the living room ecosystem, delivering the definitive smart TV platform that powers hundreds of millions of connected devices globally. With over 400 million TVs shipped annually and consumers engaging for upwards of five hours daily, the television remains the center of the home entertainment experience. Our mission is to accelerate global platform adoption, providing an expansive, highly optimized OS foundation that enables a thriving, interconnected ecosystem for OEM device partners, global operators, and content developers.

The rise in Internet delivered TV services (aka OTT) has accelerated the transformation of how consumers watch TV. Gemini is bringing another evolution around user expectations across all form factors, and most importantly on the largest form factor in the home. The Android TV team is re-defining TV experience to make it highly personalized, Google-smart, content and voice-forward, and powered by AI- helping users access the world's media and knowledge.

AndroidTV is an industry leading platform that is fast being adopted globally by TV manufacturers and operators. As the Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will provide definitive technical leadership to expand our footprint through high-stakes hardware partnerships, drive execution velocity across core Android OS integrations, and lead a software engineering organization to deliver the future of living room computing.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $364000 - $510000 (USD) 40% bonus target bonus equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the technical vision and strategy for how we deliver and grow the AndroidTV ecosystem. Steer high-stakes technical evaluations with partners.
• Lead the technical evolution of TV in an AI-first world. Enforce rigorous engineering discipline around clean conversational UI paradigms and hybrid model execution.
• Drive the platform that results in amazing experiences for users, combining the power or linear TV with OTT models and using Generative AI to reimagine TV.
• Manage relationships with key partners and stakeholders, internal: Android Media Framework, core Android, Search, Assistant and YouTube; external: OEMs, Operators, Content partners and Developers.
• Understand TV business models and ensure the platform can drive the right framework for sustainability

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Requisition #: 86766366727512774

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