Planning Intelligence Lead

Google Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Planning Intelligence Lead to drive cross-functional planning across Product Areas, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science.

You will transform complex planning data into executive insights and investment decisions that shape Google's infrastructure roadmap. Build and steer a unified Infrastructure Plan of Record, translating product demand, constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity decisions and scalable planning processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity planning, strategy, finance, business operations, or management consulting.
• 8 years of experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, Finance, or Operations organizations.
• 8 years of experience performing quantitative analysis and presenting recommendations to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement planning capabilities spanning 0-10 year horizon, translating demand into capacity decisions.
• Lead cross-functional planning analyses across Product Areas, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science.
• Translate planning data into executive-ready insights, business cases, and investment recommendations.
• Define planning assumptions, metrics, and traceability to improve planning transparency and explainability.

Skills

Outcome ownership

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional leadership

Quantitative analysis

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders;deep expertise in domain.

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• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity planning, strategy, finance, business operations, or management consulting.
• 8 years of experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, Finance, or Operations organizations.
• 8 years of experience performing quantitative analysis and presenting recommendations to executive leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, investment planning, or large-scale operational planning.
  
• Experience evaluating investment trade-offs, business cases, and planning scenarios.
  
• Excellent problem solving, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex planning problems into clear, data-driven recommendations.

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.

Build and operate an integrated infrastructure planning capability for Alphabet that covers the 0-10 year horizon, transforming product demand, infrastructure constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity decisions and a unified infrastructure Plan of Record.

The mission of the organization is to deliver planning intelligence and decision support, establishing common planning assumptions, telemetry, execution policies/principles, reporting and explainability that enable consistent planning and higher-confidence executive decision-making; integrated planning and execution, translating rapidly evolving product and business demand into integrated infrastructure plans spanning short-, medium- and long-term planning horizons; scenario evaluation and tradeoff analysis, enabling rapid evaluation of alternatives, supply constraints, and investment tradeoffs to support infrastructure allocation and prioritization decisions; and planning scalability and automation, improving planning velocity, consistency, and scalability through workflow automation, integrated planning systems, and operational tooling.

As a Planning Intelligence Lead, you will lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Product Areas, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science. You will transform complex planning data into executive insights, strategic recommendations, and investment decisions that shape Google's infrastructure roadmap.

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: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

• Build Alphabet's Planning Intelligence capability, including executive reporting, planning telemetry, KPIs, and decision support across demand, supportability, affordability, and infrastructure planning.
  
• Translate planning data into executive-ready insights, business cases, investment recommendations, and infrastructure trade-off analyses.
  
• Define planning assumptions, metrics, execution policies, and demand-to-Plan-of-Record traceability to improve planning consistency, transparency, and explainability.
  
• Partner across Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science to integrate planning signals into a unified Infrastructure Plan of Record.
  
• Lead strategic planning analyses that improve planning quality, forecast stability, planning velocity, and infrastructure investment decisions.Partner with Engineering to define business requirements for planning tooling, reporting, automation, and planning intelligence capabilities.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.

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

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.

Build and operate an integrated infrastructure planning capability for Alphabet that covers the 0-10 year horizon, transforming product demand, infrastructure constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity decisions and a unified infrastructure Plan of Record.

The mission of the organization is to deliver planning intelligence and decision support, establishing common planning assumptions, telemetry, execution policies/principles, reporting and explainability that enable consistent planning and higher-confidence executive decision-making; integrated planning and execution, translating rapidly evolving product and business demand into integrated infrastructure plans spanning short-, medium- and long-term planning horizons; scenario evaluation and tradeoff analysis, enabling rapid evaluation of alternatives, supply constraints, and investment tradeoffs to support infrastructure allocation and prioritization decisions; and planning scalability and automation, improving planning velocity, consistency, and scalability through workflow automation, integrated planning systems, and operational tooling.

As a Planning Intelligence Lead, you will lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Product Areas, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science. You will transform complex planning data into executive insights, strategic recommendations, and investment decisions that shape Google's infrastructure roadmap.

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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

To all recruitment agencies: Google does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Google employees, or any other organization location. Google is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.