Technical Program Manager, Long Haul Planner, Global Network Acquisition

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal business and cross-functional Networking Technical teams to identify and define tactical and strategic initiatives necessary to meet Google's network infrastructure needs for both expansion and cost optimization across Asia. Perform data driven analysis to develop network topology plan. 
• Present network plans for approval by all internal stakeholders. Plan complexity will range from short-term metro augments to long-term region-wide strategies for Google network in Asia.
• Manage the approved network plan with internal contributors such as network negotiators or vendor delivery managers to ensure infrastructure is delivered on time.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define and improve business processes to enable automation, reduce lead time and manage changes.
• Communicate progress internally and collaborate with network deployment and other Technical teams to track timeline and dependencies of infrastructure turn up.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Program management experience in the networking area delivering infrastructure assets and vendor management.
• Knowledge of fiber optic systems/submarine cable ecosystem.
• Understanding of Asian and global carrier networks.
• Proficiency in data visualization in business intelligence platform, Tableau or Power BI.
• Ability to exercise business and technical understanding to drive the long-term objectives of the organization.