Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in managing cross-functional programs, 5 years of experience in program management or planning for data center infrastructure.
- Experience with data centers or other infrastructure in the areas of supply planning, site development, construction, design, or engineering.
- Experience in developing technical insights and translating them into commercial solutions for the business and team.
- Experience in planning and communication management in a cross-functional leadership role and developing project plans.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience in managing cross-functional programs.
- Ability to deliver clear, concise, and effective communications, tailored to the audience, that translates a data-driven story around key business insights.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Own the development of the long-range, robust infrastructure supply plans.
- Utilize the output from advanced demand and capacity models to drive critical tradeoff decisions and develop optimal multi-year supply plans. Communicate the resulting resource requirements and investment signals to key suppliers and execution partners to ensure alignment and advocate for the optimal planning outcome.
- Establish robust cross-functional planning governance, enforcing established principles and actively incorporating asset delivery status and risks from site acquisition through construction completion to ensure accountability and on-time performance of the regional plans.
- Serve as the central bridge and point of contact for the regional planning, cultivating strong relationships to align the internal business drivers of all key stakeholders with the regional infrastructure plans.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
