Senior Director, Technical Program Management, Data Center/Power Planning

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 445,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Senior Director for Technical Program Management, focusing on data center and power planning. This role demands a strategic leader with extensive experience in capacity management, energy markets, and data center infrastructure to drive growth in Google Cloud and beyond, ensuring optimal resource utilization.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in data center planning.
• Experience with energy markets and regulatory frameworks.
• 10 years of leadership in relevant industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for global data center space and power planning.
• Oversee operational execution of power allocation.
• Maximize resource efficiency and capacity management.

Skills

Data center planning

Capacity management

Leadership

Power infrastructure

Energy markets

Regulatory frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Policy, Law, Economics, Engineering, or Business

Master's degree or MBA in related field

Job description

Senior Director, Technical Program Management, Data Center/Power Planning

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Policy, Law, Economics, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in data center planning, power infrastructure, and capacity management.
• 10 years of leadership experience in public or private sector, with energy markets, technologies, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with infrastructure, generation, capacity, allocation, transmission, energy markets, renewable energy technologies, and environmental regulations.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Policy, Law, Economics, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or MBA.
  
  

About The Job

As Director, you will lead a resource portfolio in a way that maximizes scale, accelerates business results, increases capabilities and enables the growth of Google Cloud and Core businesses. To guarantee that the organization focuses on the most crucial opportunities for the business, you will collaborate closely with leaders from Integrated Planning, Cloud Supply Chain Management, and strategic partners across Technical Infrastructure. You will be responsible for leading a group that integrates and optimizes the work of more than a dozen teams across Google to make sure that Google has a single, well integrated source of truth for demand. You will also work across several deep technical teams to identify and prioritize opportunities to streamline capability delivery to enable faster Google growth.

In this role, you will lead the engineering and operations teams that manage demand and capacity across products and locations worldwide. You will align finance, sales, operations, product, and engineering teams across Google to a converged understanding of long-range growth plans through planning execution, improved product efficiency, and consistent performance to product operating service levels. You will lead critical initiatives around driving forecasting, demand and capacity planning improvements, improving fungibility and capacity management systems, and driving product improvements to drive efficient fleet utilization. You will deliver large-scale engineering and operations improvements and influence cross-functional partners, leading strategic reviews with executives.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $320,000-$445,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Develop and advocate for a forward-thinking, long-range strategy for global data center space and power planning, anticipating future technological advancements, especially in Machine Learning (ML).
• Lead the paradigm shift from traditional machine-based planning to a Spatial model, and from busy power to measured power, driving technical, process, and cultural changes needed.
• Define and articulate strategic direction for how Google thinks about and plans for power in the era of advanced ML/AI. Drive execution of all long-range data center and power capacity plans, ensuring delivery to meet Google's scaling requirements.
• Oversee the operational execution of space and power allocation, ensuring optimal utilization and efficiency.
• Lead initiatives to optimize existing data center and power resources, maximizing capacity and efficiency. Develop and implement strategies for harvesting underutilized space and power, deferring or minimizing new capital investments.
  
  
  

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 .

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management, Strategy/Planning, and Other

• Industries

  Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

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