Program Manager III, Carbon Removals, Global Sustainability

Google; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks a Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary initiatives from start to finish, coordinating requirements, schedules, risks, and cross-functional partners across the company. Projects span offices, time zones, and hemispheres, ensuring timely updates on progress and deadlines.

The Carbon Removal team’s mission is to scale innovations for climate action, spanning nature-based and superpollutant pathways, collaborating with research, product, and advocacy teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with carbon removal and superpollutant credit types.
• Experience managing an end-to-end pipeline of agreements from sourcing through facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Manage carbon removal offtake deals from end to end, sourcing the right projects and executing agreements.
• Set strategy for a defined area of carbon removal or superpollutant procurement.
• Shape and drive complex sustainability programs, iterating rapidly to navigate ambiguous environmental markets.
• Lead diligence for projects, applying a technical screen and a commercial one.
• Negotiate and contract deals with internal collaborators, suppliers, and other third parties.

Skills

Program management

Carbon removal knowledge

End-to-end agreements pipeline

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Cambridge, MA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with carbon removal and superpollutant credit types (e.g., biomass-based, alkalinity-based, nature-based, and superpollutant elimination pathways).
• Experience managing an end-to-end pipeline of agreements from sourcing through facilitation.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience managing and driving complex programs in ambiguous environments.
• Experience with communications, marketing, public relations, or financial modeling/analysis.
• Experience conducting business across a variety of geographies, both within the United States and globally.
• Experience working directly with suppliers on carbon removal or sustainability projects.

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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The Carbon Removal team's mission is to find and scale the innovations both the planet and Google will need to fight climate change. Our portfolio spans breakthrough carbon removal technologies, nature-based carbon removal, and superpollutant elimination. We are part of the Global Sustainability Team and collaborate closely with research, product, and advocacy teams across Google.

The Global Sustainability team enables Google to build a more sustainable future for everyone by driving strategy and solutions. We drive the development and implementation of Google’s global sustainability strategy to further empower action, ensure alignment and prioritization, identify leadership opportunities, and mitigate risks. We drive sustainability strategy and programs on carbon, circular economy, water, product integration, reporting, and employee engagement, while serving as a sustainability leadership advocate internally and externally.

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

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Manage carbon removal offtake deals from end to end, sourcing the right projects and executing agreements.
• Set strategy for a defined area of carbon removal or superpollutant procurement (i.e., a given pathway or geography).
• Shape and drive complex sustainability programs, iterating rapidly to navigate ambiguous environmental markets.
• Lead diligence for projects, applying both a technical screen (to assess scale and certainty of climate impact) and a commercial one (to assess viability and business value).
• Negotiate and contract deals in collaboration with internal collaborators and approvers, suppliers, and other third parties.

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 .