Technical Program Manager, Data Center Equipment Supply Chain
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 Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO) organization makes Alphabet the trusted partner for our customers, by delivering unmatched speed, unwavering reliability, and unparalleled efficiency of our technical infrastructure.
We plan, buy, build, and deploy infrastructure (e.g., servers, storage, networking, ML accelerators, and Cloud platforms) to deliver capacity for Google’s needs. The Equipment Supply Chain team within CSCO is responsible for the Supply Chain for Data Center capital Equipment and the Spares to maintain the equipment.
As a Equipment Supply Chain Technical Program Manager, you are responsible for coordination of early stage planning with the Data Center Design team on new data center configurations and associated NPI. In addition you will be responsible to lead to the feasibility of cut-in or acceleration decisions. You will coordinate with the different functions to identify and partner to resolve constraints across the overall Data Center Equipment Supply Chain and accomplish this through the development and running of programmatic tracking and resolution of various constraints and considerations, while ensuring excellent communication of trade-offs and agreements.
Responsibilities
- Create decision criteria and processes to determine feasibility of cut-in and acceleration requests and lead the consolidation of what needs to be true to enable an accelerated business outcome.
- Ensure alignment between cross-functional tech-infra teams and the supply chain team to build reliable responses to the growth of new demand types and new products.
- Analyze numerous sources of risk or controls data across functions that require leadership attention and eliminate friction by designing solutions, remove blockers, and find ways to accelerate project delivery.
- Liaison between Supply Chain and Google Data Center Design and Execution organizations for New Product Introduction (NPI) ensuring Leadership and teams are aware of pipeline, timing, and impact of NPIs.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Analytics, Operations Research, Supply Chain or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in hardware design and manufacturing in a new product introduction role.
- Experience in data center infrastructure, operations or construction, coordination of deployments cross-functionally.
- Experience navigating ambiguity and guiding decision-making or recommendations in uncertain environments.
- Ability to manage problems across multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, organizational and prioritization skills.