Program Manager II, Data Center Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

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.

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.

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.

We drive alignment on what we should build, where, when, and who may occupy it through the Building Demand Plan (BDP) and Earmarks, an extensive set of optimization processes which provides demand justification and outlook for capital funding of data centers. This in turn provides signals to the downstream partner teams to identify new supply options and expansion of current facilities and assets. The Long Range planning team will develop and demand plans for all Product Areas including Google Cloud, ML and Other internal users.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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000-$181,000 + 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. We drive alignment on what we should build, where, when, and who may occupy it through the Building Demand Plan (BDP) and Earmarks, an extensive set of optimization processes which provides demand justification and outlook for capital funding of data centers. This in turn provides signals to the downstream partner teams to identify new supply options and expansion of current facilities and assets. The Long Range planning team will develop and demand plans for all Product Areas including Google Cloud, ML and Other internal users.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000-$181,000 + 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

• 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.