Technical Program Manager, Data Center Infrastructure Delivery

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 Infrastructure Delivery (DID) Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing major deployment programs while working with partner groups to create and achieve strategic business goals. Your objective will be to organize the overall team, establish clear roles and responsibilities, and global management of capacity deliverables, plan of records and schedules across the global network delivery organization to meet Google’s needs.

This role requires the individual to successfully 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.

Successful individuals in this role have technical backgrounds with an engineering mindset, while being expert communicators and leaders. They are comfortable with ambiguity, yet strive to increase maturity in process and technology. They are evangelical about improving program efficiency and finding ways to scale the team of Program Managers (PMs) they work with.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Manage global capacity deliverables, plan of records, and schedules for data center turnups, ensuring GSO, GGI, and PIE deliverables are managed 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.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.
  
• 2 years of experience designing, constructing, or managing infrastructure projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience within complex organizational settings (e.g., PMO, geographic dispersion, etc.).
• Operational experience with co-location and large scale data center and third-party colocation environments.
• Network, electrical, industrial, mechanical, or other engineering background.
• Strong foundational knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative and presentation skills, and familiarity with supply chain and logistics concepts.