Global AI Capacity Management and Strategic Program Lead

Google; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 146,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Global AI Capacity Management and Strategic Program Lead to optimize deployment, utilization, and well-being of technical talent across AI Tech Go-to-Market teams. You will own end-to-end matchmaking, align requirements with consultant skills, and advise leadership on staffing strategy.

This role emphasizes data-driven staffing with strategic forecasting and process improvement to support Google Cloud’s growth and customer impact across 200+ countries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program or project management in an enterprise, cloud, or technology environment.
• 5 years of staffing project teams, management consulting, or corporate strategy.

Responsibilities

• Partner with strategy and operations and AI Tech Go-to-Market leadership to create best practices for staffing and utilization management.
• Lead weekly staffing meetings with forward deployed developing leadership teams and ensure supply and demand forecasts are accurate.
• Match forward deployed developers with projects based on skill set, availability, timezone and other constraints.

Skills

Program management

Staffing

CRM (Salesforce)

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

BI dashboards

Job description

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Google utilizes AI tools to assist in assessing candidates in our hiring processes.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Toronto, ON, Canada; Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management in an enterprise, cloud, or technology environment.
• 5 years of experience staffing project teams, management consulting, or corporate strategy.
• Experience using Salesforce or another CRM.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in the business technology market as a program manager in SaaS, cloud computing, or emerging technologies.
• Experience with capacity planning models.
• Experience in staffing and forecasting in fractional staffing models.
• Experience building dashboards in business intelligence tools.

About The Job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners. As a Global AI Capacity Management and Strategic Program Lead, you will focus on optimizing the deployment, utilization, and well-being of technical talent across AI Tech Go-to-Market teams. Operating as an individual contributor, you will own the end-to-end matchmaking process aligning project requirements with consultant skill sets, availability, and constraints while serving as a trusted advisor to practice managers and leadership. This role requires a data-driven, relationship-oriented professional who can seamlessly balance day-to-day tactical staffing with strategic forecasting and process improvement. 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.

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

Canada: $146000 - $149000 (CAD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Partner with strategy and operations and AI Tech Go-to-Market leadership to create best practices for staffing and utilization management.
• Lead weekly staffing meetings with forward deployed developing leadership teams and ensure supply and demand forecasts are accurate.
• Work separately to match forward deployed developers with projects based on skill set, availability, timezone and other constraints.
• Partner with team leadership to manage assigned Forward Deployed Developers utilization, bandwidth and well being.
• Develop new metrics for tracking staffing efficiency.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .