Senior Technical Program Manager, Cloud Storage Infrastructure Management

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience in large-scale distributed system design and architecture, with the ability to define technical specifications for robust, scalable, and available infrastructure solutions.
• 5 years of experience in applying data analysis techniques to diagnose system issues, model future state scenarios, and identify areas for cost optimization.
• 5 years of software development experience including the ability to read and understand code and make configuration changes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with Capacity Management and Capacity Planning methodologies, including familiarity with large-scale data warehousing or Data Marts solutions.
• Ability to conceive of, take ownership for, and drive complex projects to completion without continuous direction.
• Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills, supported by excellent oral/written communication and analytical capabilities.
• Exceptional influencing, teaming, and collaboration skills to deliver solutions in a highly complex and rapidly changing organizational environment.

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.

As the Technical Program Manager for Central Storage Management, your core mission is to ensure Google's physical storage fleet matches logical demand in the most TCO-optimal and reliable manner, proactively shaping demand to maximize resource utilization. You will serve as the central orchestrator, coordinating across all of Google Engineering, Supply Chain, and Infrastructure teams to design and implement the future state of resource management. This involves identifying service efficiency, balancing resource distribution against network and budgetary constraints, and deploying the tools and policies necessary to redefine "on-demand" computing at an unprecedented scale. Beyond solid program delivery and technical skills, you must have experience in software product development, quantitative analytics, and/or supply chain management, bringing a rare ability to synthesize strategic solutions, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and drive tenacious, cross-functional change.

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 $183,000-$271,000 + 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

• Support operations and analytic projects related to the allocation and budgeting of internal storage resources and driving efficiency programs.
• Support subsequent operations and analytic projects related to system modeling, supply chain management, and capacity planning needs for storage resources.
• Play a key role in the advancement of strategy, policy, and supporting tools for operations. Provide scripting/tool development as well as requirements documentation as necessary.
• Work with partner teams to launch and deliver projects related to data architecture and process re-design around demand and supply-side compute resource management.