Strategic Funding and Analytics Lead

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

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. This role serves as the strategic architect of the Google Data Center construction funding lifecycle, moving beyond coordination to drive high-impact investment decisions and commercial diligence. You will lead the end-to-end evaluation of major capital projects, synthesizing complex data into concise executive insights and comparative benchmarks that align resource allocation with long-term capacity goals. By bridging the gap between operational performance and financial outcomes, you will implement automated "actuals vs. funded" analytics for large data center construction projects, and sophisticated variance reporting to ensure total transparency during execution. Ultimately, you will mature the funding governance model—optimizing the release of management reserves and automating manual workflows—to provide the strategic optionality and analytical accuracy required to scale the organization efficiently. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in finance, capital planning, or business operations, within an infrastructure or data center environment.
• 8 years of experience in CapEx funding lifecycles.
• 8 years of experience in with technical and financial worlds, collaborating with Capacity Planning, Engineering, and Corporate Finance teams to align operational needs with fiscal constraints.
• Experience managing programmatic reserves, contingency releases, and variance analysis.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Master's degree in Strategy/Analytics.
• 8 years of experience translating complex technical risks into clear, high-level "optionality" and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
• Experience in finance, project controls, data center/hyperscale construction management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Google Data Center project funding lifecycle, evaluating and coordinating the business case for all major investments for executive leadership approval.
• Coordinate ensuring resource allocation aligns with the company’s long-term capacity and financial strategy.
• Drive "actuals vs. funded" variance analysis, providing transparent, automated reporting to maintain transparency during execution, and develop insights.
• Coordinate with business analytics teams to bridge the gap between operational performance data and financial outcomes.
• Coordinate with capacity intake functions to confirm the need for capacity funding and offer scenarios as needed to maintain commercial diligence and optionality.
• Lead maturation of the existing Google Data Center funding process by automating manual workflows and influencing strategic approaches to short and long-term funding releases to support organizational scaling and commercial diligence.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level