Program Manager II, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in Supply Chain or Operations.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with broad operational scope and executing with high leadership.
• Experience strong performance in prior roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership.
• Ability to function in an ambiguous and evolving engineering operations environment.
• Ability to communicate with highly technical management teams.
• Excellent investigative, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills.
• Excellent project management, people management and communication skills, with high attention to detail and tactical execution.

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 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.

GIG's (Global Infrastructure Group) mission is to drive optimal fulfillment and transform Google’s data center fleet by balancing and shaping demand intent, deployment decisions, and supply capability. We work to develop a fleet that serves the best interest of Google, balancing customer needs with our capabilities to deliver. Using our end to end perspective, we strive to make the difficult possible.

The Fleet Actions delivery team within GIG focuses on the enablement and orchestration of capacity fulfillment, from order creation and constraints enforcement through to Delivery. The team focuses on timely execution, exception management, efficient capacity utilization, transformation programs, and delivery policies and expectations into Google Data Centers.The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Responsibilities

• Machine Learning Enablement across the Reconfigs Portfolio (Decoms, MaaT Remove, Rack Moves, MaaT Moves).
• Develop deployment plans and fulfillment strategies for machine delivery in partnership with product areas and the Supply Chain team.
• Communicate program health, status, and actions to stakeholders including product areas, leadership, and partner organizations. Collaborate across organizational levels and boundaries.
• Work with cross-functional partners and Software Engineering teams to design automation needs for scale and efficiency.
• Oversee and ensure successful execution and on-time delivery of these plans and strategies. Troubleshoot issues, identify risk areas and develop mitigation strategies. Drive efforts to improve efficiency, cycle times, reliability, predictability and on-time delivery.