Technical Program Manager, Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

6h • $156,000 - $229,000

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.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience developing data-driven models and insights.

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in demand forecast and release management.
• Experience in data management, establishing best practices and validation.
• Experience in infrastructure planning (data center or networking).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop models for location strategy given land, energy and networking constraints. Understand business trade-offs and translate to input and modeling requirements. Produce and maintain model results with explainability and traceability.
• Analyze multitudes of data sources reflecting various layers of demand granularities across data centers and networking stacks. Design data validation, integrity and governance policies.
• Drive execution of scalable models in collaboration with software engineers and supply planning teams. Create communication channels across various teams.

What This Job Offers

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