Technical Program Manager, Edge Planning, Global Network Planning

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• 3 years of experience in network capacity planning.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in project management within network planning.
• Ability to adapt and prioritize in a dynamic planning environment.
• Ability to construct, articulate, and defend simple messages or insights from analysis.
• Excellent investigative skills for network planning decisions.
• Excellent organizational, and detail-oriented skills for network topology management.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Manage network planning for Google's global production Edge network, focus on the development of topology, capacity, and infrastructure Plans of Record.
• Lead projects that align with the Network Supply Plan’s weekly and monthly release cycles to address reliability, geo-expansion, and stockout queues.
• Facilitate the publication of network plans by managing topology changes through regional reviews and Change Control Board processes.
• Define and monitor key business metrics, such as process time and SLA adherence, to optimize the throughput of new planning queues.
• Provide technical expertise to automate workflows and collaborate with partner teams (GND, GNS) to resolve process ambiguities.