Technical Program Manager, Submarine Cable Deployment

Technical Program Manager, Submarine Cable Deployment at Google

Note: Google's hybrid workplace includes remote roles. Remote location: New Hampshire, USA. However, this specific role requires a permanent on-site presence at our supplier’s cable factory in Newington, New Hampshire.

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.

The Global Submarine Networks (GSN) team plans, builds, and operates the subsea backbone network used by Google to provide our products and services. We collaborate with internal stakeholders and an array of suppliers to create construction agreements, oversee the delivery of each cable system, and operate and maintain that infrastructure for high reliability and security.

The Cable Build team is a specialized group within GSN responsible for cable system construction. This team blends skills from marine construction, fiber-optic networking, project management, and agreements to deliver this core infrastructure.

In this role, you will own fiber-optic submarine cable construction projects. You will lead work between submarine cable vendors, partners, and internal teams through close collaboration with other technical program managers, strategic negotiators, network deployment engineers, product managers and network architects. You will use your understanding of the Google Network and your skills in vendor management, marine survey, marine installation, manufacturing, permitting, optical transport, outside plant, and telecommunications industry best practices to lead cross-functional teams in driving genesis and completion of submarine cable projects.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with submarine cables (e.g., deployment, installation, testing, or equipment handling).
• Experience in partner/vendor management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering; mathematics; physics; environmental science; or oceanography or a related field.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience working with international project teams and collaborating remotely with teammates.
• Understanding of multiple areas relevant to submarine cable deployment, such as marine route engineering, environmental permitting, marine construction, civil engineering, manufacturing processes, and quality assurance.
• Ability to adapt in situations of ambiguity with organizational, multitasking, and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a supplier/purchaser liaison for monitoring production milestones, verifying scheduling accuracy, and ensuring that our specific project requirements are prioritized within the factory’s broader manufacturing queue.
• Be a permanent on-site presence at our supplier’s cable factory in Newington, New Hampshire with the objective of reducing project lead times and improving transparency between supplier and purchaser.
• Monitor the production schedule daily to ensure cable fabrication aligns with our project milestones.
• Coordinate the scheduling of cable engineering, manufacturing, storage, freighting, and loading tasks to ensure product throughput, documentation, and traceability.
• Facilitate technical discussions between our engineering team and the supplier’s production managers.
• Identify and escalate production risks to our project leadership.

Key skills/competency

• Program Management
• Submarine Cable Deployment
• Vendor Management
• Fiber Optics
• Marine Construction
• Project Scheduling
• Risk Management
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Telecommunications
• Quality Assurance