Technical Program Manager, Data Center Infrastructure Delivery

Google•Pryor Creek, OK

2h•$138,000 - $197,000

About The Position

As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you will lead complex, multidisciplinary projects from start to finish. You will work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage schedules, and communicate with cross-functional partners, explaining analyses and recommendations to executives and discussing technical tradeoffs with engineers. In the Data Center Infrastructure Delivery organization, you will oversee major deployment programs and work with partner groups to create and achieve strategic business goals. You will organize teams, establish clear roles and responsibilities, and manage capacity deliverables, plans of record, and schedules across the global network delivery organization to meet Google's needs. The role requires assembling project plans, managing objectives, influencing without authority, and maintaining schedule velocity, combining project and technical leadership. Successful candidates have technical backgrounds and an engineering mindset, as well as strong communication and leadership skills. They are comfortable with ambiguity and work to improve process and technology maturity, increase program efficiency, and scale the work of the Program Managers they support. The Data Center team designs and operates sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems and is a team-oriented group of engineers building and operating data centers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
At least 2 years of experience in program management.
At least 2 years of experience designing, constructing, or managing infrastructure projects.

Nice To Haves

Experience in complex organizational settings, such as a PMO or geographically dispersed organization.
Operational experience with co-location and large-scale data centers, including third-party colocation environments.
Background in network, electrical, industrial, mechanical, or another engineering discipline.
Strong foundational knowledge of data networking architectures and physical network components.
Excellent analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills, and familiarity with supply chain and logistics concepts.

Responsibilities

Manage global capacity deliverables, plans of record, and schedules for data center turnups, ensuring GSO, GGI, and PIE deliverables are managed to overall schedules.
Understand partner dependencies, constraints, and forecasting mechanisms; work with planning teams to start dependent projects in time to support downstream dependencies.
Work with partner teams to align project priorities, secure resources, and coordinate logistics for material storage and delivery.
Contribute capacity updates to business reviews, provide health reports highlighting wins, risks, and demands, and implement and drive escalation processes.
Document patterns, spikes, and lessons learned to improve deployment times; drive root-cause corrective actions to prevent recurring issues and capacity constraints.