About the job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Drive material readiness for mass production builds through collaboration with contract manufacturers, planning teams, and commodity managers. Identify supply chain risks and mitigation steps to ensure material readiness from product goes into mass production and through end of life.

• Ensure smooth product transitions. Be the primary material liaison with Planning, NPI and CM for product bring up and launch.

• Communicate status, risks, and influence change. Drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team to become more scalable.

• Develop processes to enable on-time delivery and mitigation across multiple Contract Manufacturers in supply and labor constrained environments.

• Manage projects from inception through completion. Ensure requirements are complete and scope is well defined with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience in direct supply/demand planning and end-to-end supply chain management (e.g., forecasting, warehousing, fulfillment, reverse logistics).

• 2 years of experience in program or project management.

• Experience shipping consumer electronics and directly responsible for bringing new products to market.

Preferred qualifications

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

• Ability to work with different data sources to derive key insights.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to successfully work across multiple levels of the organization.