Technical Program Manager, Data Center Design

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• PE License, RAa License, Chartered Engineer License or equivalent
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in managing data center design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in product development.
• Ability to manage changing priorities to ensure projects stay on schedule.
• Demonstrated skills in requirements gathering, optioneering, resource organization, task prioritization, planning, scheduling and achieving objectives on schedule to the quality and within budget.

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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full life-cycle of programs which reach the immediate team.
• Lead and manage program activities that drive business outcomes while developing systems to identify improvements and drive future optimizations including change management and performance metrics.
  
• Define and address undefined cross-functional issues, utilizing existing protocols including program management methodologies to monitor and manage programs and stakeholders.
  
• Demonstrate decision-making skills and adjust programs while navigating changing circumstances across multiple functional areas.
• Understand and manage the expectations of cross-functional stakeholders.