Senior Technical Program Manager, Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in program management.
10 years of experience in the design, planning, or optimization of data center Infrastructure.

Nice To Haves

10 years of experience managing complex 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.

Responsibilities

Define, design and implement integrated modeling frameworks for planning Google data centers, from land and energy acquisition to network and data center infrastructure.
Own the decision framework balancing demand and cost for data centers, defining buffering strategy, and guiding optimization across infrastructure stack.
Create communication channels across various planning organizations.
Ensure alignment on asset definitions, logical and physical attributes, and demand mapping.
Build consensus on planning policies.
Lead integrated network and data center planning and optimization.