Strategic Planning Intelligence Lead

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Planning Intelligence Lead to lead cross-functional initiatives spanning 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.

As you lead the development of an integrated Planning Intelligence capability, you will translate product demand, constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity plans and a unified Plan of

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.
• 8 years of experience performing quantitative analysis and presenting recommendations to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Planning Intelligence Lead to lead cross-functional initiatives spanning 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.

As you lead the development of an integrated Planning Intelligence capability, you will translate product demand, constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity plans and a unified Plan of