Technical Program Manager, Data Center Network Delivery

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, Data Center Network Delivery 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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience working within complex organizational settings (e.g., PMO, geographic dispersion, etc.).
• Experience with colocation and large-scale data center operations.
• Experience with operations third-party colocation environments, including familiarity with supply chain and logistics concepts.
• Strong foundational knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee global management of capacity deliverables, plan of records, and schedules across GDN.
• Understand partner team dependencies, constraints, designs, and forecasting mechanisms that impact business by engaging early, collaborating on process improvements, and communicating.
• Work with planning to understand plan of record and ensure dependent projects are on time to support the schedule of 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.
• Work with NDI, Edge, and WAN to ensure deliverables are managed and delivered to the overall schedule, and participate and contribute to business reviews providing global deployment and capacity updates.
• Document patterns, spikes, and lessons learned, and improve deployment times.
• Provide health reports highlighting wins, risk, and upcoming demands. Create, implement, and drive the escalation process.

Key skills/competency

• Program Management
• Data Center Operations
• Network Architectures
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Risk Management
• Project Scheduling
• Stakeholder Communication
• Capacity Planning
• Logistics Management
• Process Improvement