Technical Program Manager II

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 Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) NPI team is dedicated to ensuring safety is "built-in" to new platforms and other products that enter our data centers. We work to ensure that safety and ergonomic risks are identified and properly mitigated for all touchpoints across the life-cycle for deployments in the Google data center environment. Our team is committed to enabling Google to lead the industry in keeping our people safe while remaining on the cutting-edge of hardware development and deployment.

Safety and Ergonomics play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and usability of new product designs. In this role, you will proactively review product designs at all stages of development, identify potential safety hazards and ergonomic risks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement effective mitigation measures. The primary objective is to minimize the risk of safety incidents and promote the well-being of end-users by integrating safety and ergonomic considerations into the product development life-cycle.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$189,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Provide EHS leadership for the introduction of new hardware products, implementing mitigations to ensure the highest level of safety possible. Evaluate new data center hardware for employee hazards to Servers, Racks, Tools and related infrastructure, coordinating equipment changes with cross-functional teams to enable risk mitigation across the product life-cycle.
• Manage safety requirement integration into design standards, coordinate equipment reviews with cross-functional teams to perform job hazard analysis.
• Review incidents with cross-functional teams to evaluate risk mitigation options for current and future deployed equipment.
• Manage and report risk and mitigation data to partner and stakeholder teams. Manage multiple programs and report to leadership on progress and milestone accomplishments.  
• Travel of 25% of time as needed.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Product/Hardware Platform design safety.
• Experience implementing EHS needs in the design of data centers and knowledge of Data Center Operations, Facilities Management, Engineering, and Construction.
• Strong track record in technical roles with Product Management and Engineering with the ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent data driven problem-solving skills with the ability to identify key issues, gather and analyze complex data sets to support hypotheses and develop actionable recommendations.
• Excellent relationship building, collaboration, negotiation, investigative and communication skills.