Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in technical program management or planning for data center infrastructure and real estate development or a similar industry.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure components (Power, Cooling, Shell/Core) and construction lifecycles.
- Proficiency in using data to identify trends and experience maintaining complex project trackers or dashboards.
- Ability to independently drive outcomes and manage dependencies in a complex environment.
- Ability to tailor communications to different audiences, ensuring technical details are clearly understood by non-technical partners.
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 tracking of critical milestones against the approved plan.
- Coordinate schedule adjustments and monitor lead times to ensure assets are delivered by the required dates.
- Identify and communicate deviations from the plan, specifically monitoring constraints to address risks before they impact the critical path.
- Determine and collect the data required to measure program health, providing transparency into program changes or delays.
- Build effective working relationships with stakeholders to facilitate decision-making and clarify roles and responsibilities.
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