Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Supply Portfolio
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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
As our products and services scale the globe, the Global Infrastructure and Energy (GIE) team works behind the scenes as a dynamic team within Google responsible for delivering the infrastructure capacity needed to support Google's rapidly growing product portfolio. The Supply Strategy and Portfolio Planning (SSP) team sits within GIE, and we manage a complex portfolio of infrastructure projects, ensuring that Google's services have the resources they need to operate seamlessly and reliably. SSP performs location strategy, regional planning and portfolio management to determine where, why, and how much infrastructure assets Google needs to seamlessly scale into the future.
We provide the programs, strategies and tool sets for our regional negotiation and execution teams to consistently make high-quality decisions at scale to meet the needs of Google’s business.Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of regional planners across APAC and EMEA, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence and ensuring they have the tools to manage complex portfolios.
- Own the ultimate accountability for delivering robust data center supply to the business by setting and ensuring delivery to a multi-year supply roadmap for the APAC and EMEA regions.
- Utilize advanced demand and capacity models to drive critical tradeoff decisions and secure executive-level approval for multi-year supply plans.
- Serve as the primary executive bridge between regional planning and key stakeholders in Finance, Land, Energy, Network, and Construction.
- Work closely with America’s regional planning leads to establish and enforce global cross-functional planning governance, ensuring regional plans remain on-time and accountable from site acquisition through construction completion.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in program management.
- 7 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
- Experience managing international teams and infrastructure portfolios across various markets (specifically APAC and EMEA).
- Experience in breaking down complex global dependencies into discrete, manageable regional plans that align with long-term infrastructure goals.
- Ability to tell a data-driven story that influences high-level business insights and strategy.
- Ability to apply high-velocity critical thought to solve complex infrastructure challenges and drive scalable, long-term solutions for executive leadership.
- Excellent communication and management skills.