Senior Engineering Manager, Applied Innovation Factory, OCTO

Senior Engineering Manager

The Office of the CTO (OCTO) is a team of experienced engineers, sponsored by the Cloud CTO and CEO, whose mission is to foster market-disrupting collaborative innovation between Google and the world's most ambitious organizations. Within OCTO, the Applied Innovation Factory (AIF) is an entrepreneurial incubation program spurring Cloud and AI innovation through collaborative experimentation. We partner with engineering teams and key customers to build technology that pushes real-world boundaries, turning early proof points into scaled products.

As the Senior Engineering Manager for OCTO Alternative Investment Fund (AIF), you will build and lead a team of Software Engineers exploring transformative market opportunities. You will collaborate with OCTO's leaders, Google Product / Engineering teams, and strategic customers to create the future of Google, focusing on high-impact growth. You will bring an entrepreneurial spirit, taking loosely formed ideas into actionable insights and concrete outputs. Your leadership is marked by curiosity, and you must be eager to write code and collaborate directly with the team.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $248,000-$349,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Responsibilities include :

• Lead OCTO's AIF Americas pod (~10) collaborates with OCTO's Technical Leaders and other cross functional partners.
• Leverage your deep technical expertise to help identify and refine promising projects across a rich variety of highly complex AI problems.
• Bring your entrepreneurial spirit and passion for addressing ambiguous and ambitious projects in a scrappy 0 to 1 environment, driving focus on speed to learnings and prioritizing rapid experimentation.
• Collaborate to define and continuously refine concrete experiments, proactively identify and unblock the team when necessary and contribute directly in the project execution.
• Navigate complex organizational challenges working across products and engineering in Google Cloud, Google DeepMind and other Google teams. Build a collaborative and effective team coaching and mentoring the team on experimental thinking, challenging their assumptions, structuring communication for successful transitions and career development.