Strategic Network Programs Manager – Global Infra

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the strategic network planning direction for the EMEA region projects. You will own multi-disciplinary programs, plan requirements, identify risks, and communicate with executives and engineers across cross-functional teams.

You will drive alignment on network assets procurement plans, optimize production networks for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, and collaborate with engineers, negotiators, and TPgMs to meet product rollout

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in network infrastructure, network design, network architecture, optical design, and fiber architecture.

Responsibilities

• Architect three-year infrastructure roadmaps alongside cross-functional partners to scale regional capacity, control costs, and support asset procurement for deal approvals.
• Deliver deep technical risk assessments through extensive "what-if" analyses, ensuring resilient, high-performance network design choices across the entire footprint.
• Interface with internal business owners to capture capacity drivers and deadlines, coordinating closely with deployment and engineering teams to track end-to-end progress.
• Partner across technical teams to refine planning workflows, reduce delivery lead times, and integrate AI into tooling to enhance data integrity.
• Ingest and translate regional demand flows into optimized Layer 0 and Layer 3 asset plans, factoring in market trends and technology evolution.

Job description

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the strategic network planning direction for the EMEA region projects. You will own multi-disciplinary programs, plan requirements, identify risks, and communicate with executives and engineers across cross-functional teams.

You will drive alignment on network assets procurement plans, optimize production networks for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, and collaborate with engineers, negotiators, and TPgMs to meet product rollout