Senior Technical Program Manager I, Data Center Demand and Allocation Planning, Google Cloud

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick time 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave 28–30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the Data Center Planning team in crafting cost-efficient data-center capacity plans. You will coordinate cross-functional efforts, manage risks, and report progress to executives while collaborating with ML and Cloud stakeholders to align goals with business priorities.

You will drive demand planning, partner with finance, and help map customer requirements through to actionable planning decisions across a global data-center portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in quantitative data analytics for capacity planning.
• Experience applying AI tools to automate data analysis.
• Experience managing supply-demand matching and cost-efficiency trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Drive engagement with ML and Cloud partners to coordinate planning and reporting to executives.
• Develop a finance-informed demand plan with efficient flows and executive reviews.
• Map customer demand to systems ensuring alignment with customer intent and strategic accounts.
• Ensure planning outcomes align with executive mandates alongside ML stakeholders.
• Collaborate with teams developing new data center supply for holistic demand health.

Skills

Program management experience

Quantitative data analytics

AI for data analysis

Supply-demand matching

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Data center planning tools

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in quantitative data analytics, using a numbers-driven approach for capacity planning.
• Experience applying AI tools and methodologies to automate data analysis.
• Experience managing supply-demand matching and driving cost-efficiency trade-offs.

Preferred qualifications

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 5 years of experience in management consulting, capacity planning, or strategic operations planning.
• Experience deploying AI to run quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience influencing stakeholders across multiple organizations and different levels of responsibilities.
• Experience in global Data Center design, construction, and deployment practices.
• Ability to shift between analysis and big picture thinking and customizing communication based on the audience.

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.

The Data Center Planning (DCP) organization is responsible for identifying the most cost-efficient set of data centers to meet a 5-year forecast demand signal and for identifying and planning the Product Areas (PAs) who will occupy them. This work relies on a supply-demand matching (SDM) process, coordinated by both sophisticated solver engines and extensive team knowledge, defining the direction of a global, hyperscale data center portfolio. We drive alignment on what we should build, where, when, and who may occupy it through our Space+Power SDMs an extensive set of optimization processes which provides demand allocation and data center building orders. Within DCP, this role is for a senior independent contributor (IC) who will partner cross-functionally to enable rapid and coordinated planning of our data center building capacity.

As a lead IC on the Data Center Planning team, you will be responsible for ensuring that DCP remains aligned with critical executive priorities for ML and Cloud, and fully aligned with our finance partners.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

Responsibilities

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• Drive DCP's engagement with critical ML and Cloud partners to coordinate and connect planning and reporting through to VPs and customers.
• Partner with stakeholders to develop a finance-informed and aligned demand plan, in part by setting up efficient process flows, executive reviews, and decision frameworks.
• Partner with the Cloud internal customers to make sure that we map customer demand through our systems such that it aligns with customer intent and strategic accounts.
• Partner with ML stakeholders to make sure our planning outcomes align with critical executive mandates.
• Partner with teams developing new data center supply, including new assets, efficiencies, or left-shifts, to enable a holistic view of demand plan health.

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 .