Technical Program Manager, Data Center Capacity Planning

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in software infrastructure capacity planning.
• Experience with data center, networking, and operations.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• 5 years of experience with scripting or business tool development using SQL or Python.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate findings and new initiatives to senior leaders.

About the job

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.

As a Data Center Planner at Google, you will play a crucial role in strategically managing data center capacity. In this role, you will be responsible for forecasting the company's future capacity needs, and efficiently allocating available resources to various projects and teams. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the policies and procedures that govern these allocations, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and efficiency goals.

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

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $168,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

• Identify opportunities to improve the quality and speed of data center plans, garner stakeholder support, and lead the implementation.
• Play a key role in the advancement of strategy, policy, process, and supporting software for operations.
• Provide scripting/tool development as needed.
• Translate data center planning needs into software requirements (BRD), work with product and software engineering partners to influence product roadmaps (PRD), and priorities.
• Offer clear, concise, and logical recommendations to partners and executives in a timely manner regarding Google’s data center capacity and allocation needs.