Technical Program Manager III, Network Capacity, Cloud Networking

About the job

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.

As a Data Center Network (DCNet) Delivery Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing deployment programs while working with partner groups to create and achieve strategic business goals. Your objective will be to organize the overall team, establish clear roles and responsibilities, and global management of capacity deliverables, plan of records and schedules across the global network delivery organization to meet Google’s needs. You will bring together all the elements necessary to put a project plan together, manage objectives, and influence without authority, all while maintaining schedule velocity. Both project and technical leadership are woven into every facet of this role.

In this role, you have technical backgrounds with an engineering mindset, while being expert communicators and leaders. You are comfortable with ambiguity, yet strive to increase maturity in process and technology. You advocate about improving program efficiency and finding ways to scale the team of Program Managers work with.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$237,000 + 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

• Plan records and schedules, global management of capacity deliverables.
• Understand partner team dependencies, constraints, designs and forecasting mechanisms that impact the business by engaging early and often, collaborating on process improvements and communicating.
• Work with partner teams to ensure project priorities are aligned, resources are secured and logistics is on point with material storage and delivery.
• Document patterns, spikes, lesson learned and proactively improve deployment times. Provide health reports highlighting wins, risk, and upcoming demands.
• Participate and contribute to business reviews providing global deployment and capacity updates. Guide root causes corrective actions and makes recommendations to the business to prevent known issues from recurring and constraining capacity.