Program Manager II, Data Center Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

Program Manager II, Data Center Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

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 Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The Data Center Planning organization will identify the cost-efficient set of data centers to meet a 5-year forecast demand signal and for identifying and planning the Product Areas (PAs) who will occupy them. This work relies on a Supply-Demand Matching (SDM) process, coordinated by both sophisticated solver engines and extensive team knowledge, defining the direction of a global, hyperscale data center portfolio. Teams across Google rely on DCP to guide timing and priorities of land acquisition, seed funding (including campus plan activities), offsite utility infrastructure, long-lead equipment, construction investments.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience in one of the following areas: data center planning, supply planning, demand planning, or capacity planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in data center strategic demand and capacity planning and systems design/automation.
• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Knowledge of SQL, dashboard, metrics automation development.
• Ability to manage multiple, engaging priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent investigative and quantitative skills with the ability to use data (including SQL) and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Model and set regional long-term demand plans and guiding strategic infrastructure investment to optimize the continuity of supply.
• Work closely with region sales leads, product, demand planning, finance, networking, and software development teams to deliver high quality and robust capacity planning processes, with favorable business outcomes.
• Instrument a blend of analysis, program design, implementation and operations management skills to improve our processes and data in order to define the long term build forecast.
• Partner with internal stakeholders in order to identify technological and business constraints to avoid scheduling conflicts in the presence of multiple orders engaging for limited resources over the planning horizon.
• Be able to analyze large data sets quickly to identify complex patterns and relationships resulting in operational solutions to real business problems.

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