Technical Program Manager, DCDE Central Operations

Technical Program Manager, DCDE Central Operations Location: Atlanta, GA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; +4 more; +3 more

Experience Level: Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Benefits In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US-based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Atlanta, GA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• 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 an environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 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.
• Ability to travel is needed.
• Attention to detail and heightened capability of follow-through, update to conditions previously reported to business leadership.
• An ideal candidate would have managed and executed projects, served in a program role supporting back office operations and experience working across various stakeholders and teams.

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.

Google is looking for a highly motivated Technical Program Manager with demonstrated design, operations and construction oversight experience in the area of complex systems with multiple stakeholders. Mission critical construction management experience is preferred.

As a Data Center Delivery and Engineering (DCDE) Central Operations Team Technical Program Manager, you will be deeply involved in multiple strategic and tactical programs focused on improving our data center planning and execution. You will act as an interface between the construction site leads and our internal partners, internal stakeholders, and vendors to ensure improvement initiatives are supported. Additionally, you will organize and manage program initiatives through completion including successfully delivering and communicating to the business operational improvements, Machine Learning progress, and project delivery learnings/policy updates.

These program initiatives will focus on the processes, procedures and tools within the programmatic end to end data center delivery plan and execution process of our hyper-scale capital improvement projects.

The position is physically located at a recognized DCDE office or data center campus. Other locations can be considered.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Pay Range: $163,000 - $236,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + 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 the project initiative during the development and execution phase.
• Ensure prior to completion of the initiative, that all goals and objectives of the initiative are met with clear implementation strategy, quantifiable impacts to the site teams and recorded risks.
• Develop communication and roll-out strategy to both management and execution teams including training, direct engagement, and general awareness notifications. Reporting on ML progress, mitigations, and learnings.

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