About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

As our products and services scale the globe, the Global Infrastructure and Energy (GIE) team works behind the scenes as a dynamic team within Google responsible for delivering the infrastructure capacity needed to support Google's rapidly growing product portfolio. The Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning (SSP) team sits within GIE, and we manage a complex portfolio of infrastructure projects, ensuring that Google's services have the resources they need to operate seamlessly and reliably. SSP performs location strategy, regional planning and portfolio management to determine where, why, and how much infrastructure assets Google needs to seamlessly scale into the future. The modeling and analytics team, provides decision-making frameworks with underlying foundation to enable high-quality decisions at scale, faster and with less risk to meet the needs of Google’s business.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000-$271,000 + 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. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop models for location strategy given land, energy and networking constraints. Understand business tradeoffs and translate to input and modeling requirements. Produce and maintain model results with explainability and traceability.

• Drive business requirements definition, design data ecosystems, lead and coordinate development to analyze multitudes of data sources reflecting various layers of demand granularities across data center and networking stack.

• Lead design and execution of modeling ecosystem, data collection, model design, tradeoff and constraints analysis, evaluation, model tracking and decision making.

• Manage execution of scalable models and data foundations in collaboration with software engineers and supply planning teams. Create communication channels across various teams.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in program management.

• 8 years of experience in the design and planning of data center infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field.

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

• Ability to develop strategy, define and drive programs and processes through ambiguity to address significant business challenges.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity to define and drive cross-functional programs in large, complex work groups, including upwards of team members and stakeholders that span multiple teams/organizations.

• Excellent execution, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.