Program Manager III, Hardware NPI, Cloud Supply Chain

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience driving New Product Introduction (NPI) for hardware programs (e.g., PCBA, accelerators, equipment, racks, switches, optics).
• Experience with materials management (e.g., bill of materials (BOMs), contract manufacturers, supplier coordination, delivery material readiness, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Hardware supply chain experience driving products from prototype to mass production.
• Experience with supply planning and accounting/finance analytics.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization and experience leading cross functional process improvements, using strong analytical and communication/facilitation skills.

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.

As Program Manager, you will lead all aspects of supply chain readiness in New Product Introduction (NPI) products for our global data centers. You will work with cross-functional teams starting with product inception to volume ramp to bring innovative products into global data centers efficiently and dynamically. You will demonstrate domain expertise in material readiness, clear to build, supplier and contract manufacturer management, procurement, manufacturing, supply resiliency, and are well versed in other aspects of operations and engineering that impact supply chain strategies and execution.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing materials plans, enabling prototype builds and driving production ramp plans for products deployed in our data centers. Product types include networking, infrastructure, and server and storage. You will work closely with Engineering, Supply Chain Operations, Supply and Demand Planning, Contract Manufacturing, and Supplier partners to launch new products and to implement processes and systems that directly scale new product deployments.

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

• Drive material and supply chain readiness for all NPI builds from concept phase to production handoff, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure success.
• ­Identify and communicate supply chain risks and mitigation plans to ensure materials readiness for NPI builds as well as enabling long term supply continuity into production.
• ­Be the primary materials liaison with ODM/CM/Suppliers, manage spend against project budgets, and drive large production risk buys and strategic buffers.
• ­Develop and document global supply chain map for each product, including suppliers, procurement model, lead time, shipment logistics, assembly/test/fulfillment model, and spares strategies.
• ­Update project schedules, communicate status, risks and influence change, and represent the New Product Introduction Supply Chain organization in internal program meetings, driving initiatives and process improvements to help the team grow in scalability.