Technical Program Manager, Network Acquisition

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.

In this role you will own and drive projects related to network infrastructure in LATAM, and provide overall support to the Network Planning, Acquisition, and Deployment teams on scoping and managing orders, and deployments of required assets. You will work with Google’s third-party telecom and colocation vendors, managing deliverables while driving solutions. You will place dark fiber, wavelength and colocation space and power orders under existing master agreements, prepare drawings, maps, scopes-of-work and other materials as needed to describe projects to stakeholders. You will also work with internal teams to ensure projects are scoped and transitioned for overall network deployment. You will manage dark fiber construction projects for new backbone, front-haul, backhaul, and lateral routes and evaluate alternatives and develop solutions for project-specific feasibility studies. Additionally you will maintain a schedule of active projects, tracking due dates, reporting on issues and develop, grow relationships with vendors and partners.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Prioritize program goals, understand and translate other stakeholders’ needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
• Define the scope of projects and develop, execute, or manage project plans for supported program(s).
• Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
• Identify, communicate, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders within one or more teams to drive impact and work toward mutual goals.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7 years of program management experience managing projects with cross-functional teams.
• 5 years of experience in network infrastructure acquisition, including dark fiber, transport systems, cable landing stations, colocation space, and subsea assets.
• Experience with network planning and engineering, as well as performing availability analysis on network assets.