Global Network Program Manager - Metro Planning

Google; Dublin; On-site; EUR 118,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Google in Dublin is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive the strategic network planning direction for EMEA Network Acquisitions, leading cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, and strategy.

You will own roadmaps, identify risks, and balance business and technical objectives to deliver scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure for Google's production network while enabling future product rollouts.

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.
• Preferred: IP, OSP, optical networking design and planning.
• Experience in program management for networking and vendor management.

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.

Skills

Program management

Network infrastructure

Network design

Optical design

Fiber architecture

IP/OSP design

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Google in Dublin is seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive the strategic network planning direction for EMEA Network Acquisitions, leading cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, and strategy.

You will own roadmaps, identify risks, and balance business and technical objectives to deliver scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure for Google's production network while enabling future product rollouts.