Business Operations Strategy Program Manager, Google Data Centers

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Project delivery, Engineering/Construction Management or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience working with data center or other mission critical equipment/environments
• 5 years of experience managing process improvement or construction programs in a matrixed environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working across various stakeholders and teams
• Knowledge of large-scale mission critical facility’s electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems
• Excellent requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and goal attainment 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.

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.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$229,000 + 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

• Participate in and create a program initiative charter, working with internal stakeholders to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria, estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives.
• Seek approval of the program initiative and support requests. Work with teams to identify resources best suited to participate and contribute to an initiative project.
• Manage, monitor and communicate progress, risks, and mitigations of business processes.  
• Ensure prior to completion of the initiative, that all goals and objectives of the initiative are successfully met with clear implementation strategy, quantifiable impacts to the site teams, and recorded risks.
• Develop communication and roll out strategy to headcount planning, OKR planning, summit planning, dashboard reporting, and action item tracking.