Technical Program Manager I, Data Center Networking, Cloud Network

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience in program management.
• Experience in data center networking, optical and transport, edge architectures, or large-scale campus infrastructure deployments.
• Experience within Network, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical, or other Engineering backgrounds.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with hardware supply chain, inventory staging, material procurement, and logistics.
• Experience with data networking architectures and physical network components.
• Ability to be an influential member of an integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members.

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Data Center Network Delivery Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing major deployment programs for networks while working with partner groups to create and achieve strategic business goals. Your objective will be global management of capacity deliverables, plan of records and schedules across the global network delivery organization to meet Google’s needs.
In this role, you will bring together all the elements necessary to put a project plan together, manage objectives, and influence without authority, all while maintaining schedule velocity. Both project and technical leadership is woven into every facet of this role.

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

• Manage North America's capacity deliverables, plan of records, and schedules for data center deliverables and ensure delivery according to overall schedules.
• Understand partner dependencies, constraints, and forecasting mechanisms; work with planning to ensure dependent projects are kicked off in time to support downstream dependencies.
• Work with partner teams to ensure project priorities are aligned, resources are secured, and logistics is on point with material storage and delivery.
• Contribute to business reviews providing capacity updates, provide health reports highlighting wins, risks, and demands, and implement and drive escalation processes.
• Document patterns, spikes, and lessons learned to proactively improve deployment times, driving root cause corrective actions to prevent known issues from recurring and constraining capacity.