Google Looking For Technical Program Manager, Data Center Networking, Delivery at Atlanta, GA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of program management experience.

Experience scheduling, and executing projects, and influencing across a cross-functional organization

Preferred qualifications:
Experience within complex organizational settings (e.g., program management office, geographic dispersion, etc.).

Experience with operations in a third-party co-location environment and familiarity with supply chain and logistics concepts.

Co-location and Large Scale data center operational experience.

Network, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical, or other Engineering background.

Strong foundational knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components.

Excellent communication, leadership, analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills.

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.

The Data Center Networking Delivery (DCNet) team manages data center deployment projects, including data center and mini-cluster turn ups, turndowns, expansions, and refactors, along with new technology pilots.

As a DCNet Delivery Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing major deployment programs while working with partner groups to create and achieve strategic business goals. The goal will be to organize the overall team, establish clear roles and responsibilities, and manage a master schedule that meets Google’s needs. This role requires successfully merging all the elements necessary to put a project plan in place, managing objectives, and influencing without authority, all while maintaining schedule velocity. Both project and technical leadership is woven into every facet of this role.

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.

Additional Information

(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $120,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

• Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

Manage network infrastructure capacity delivery programs, and solve technical issues revolving around network port capacity, physical cabling installation, network equipment capacity, project scheduling, and logistics.

Communicate with technical professionals in order to develop solutions, while managing relationships between cross-functional teams, including external parties/vendors.

Identify process and communications breakdowns, while developing and driving solutions to remedy the issues.

Manage process development and optimization initiatives.

Create and maintain master schedules, budgets, Bill of Materials, and related factors.

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