Technical Program Manager, Field Integration and Assembly, Data Center Operations

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Sick Time; Seattle 69 hours/year

Maternity Leave; Baby Bonding Leave

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager in the US to lead complex, multi-disciplinary data center construction programs from planning through deployment. You will coordinate stakeholders, identify risks, and manage schedules while communicating tradeoffs to executives and engineers.

Leveraging technical and leadership experience, you will drive opportunities, improve processes, and shape the technical directions of programs across teams, partners, and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of program management experience.
• 2 years managing multi-group, multi-disciplinary construction projects.
• Experience creating prefabrication work packages for construction.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and support of team initiatives and goals with charters and schedules.
• Develop prefabrication execution strategies and work packaging for North American data center construction.
• Manage progress, risks and mitigations, communicating to leadership.
• Deliver end-to-end customer solutions from construction to deployment with supply chain partners.
• Resolve critical issues to protect timelines and costs.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Program management

Multi-group coordination

Construction project mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

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.

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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program management.
• 2 years of experience managing multi-group, multi-disciplinary construction projects and designs.
• Experience creating prefabrication work packages for construction.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems or large-scale mission critical facilities.
• Experience with productivity tracking, budget and schedule management, and earned value reporting.
• Experience breaking down electrical and mechanical design into work packages.
• Experience constructing technical facilities.

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.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you will manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

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.

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

US: $138000 - $197000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Provide oversight and support of team initiatives and goals. Develop charters, work with internal stakeholders on strategies and objectives, establish success criteria, and align resources and schedules to achieve the objectives.
• Support the development of prefabrication execution strategies and advanced work packaging initiatives for North American data center construction, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to scale consistent, repeatable processes.
• Manage project progress, risks, and mitigations throughout development and execution, independently analyzing complex construction challenges and communicating timely updates to leadership.
• Gather internal requirements and deliver end-to-end customer solutions from construction to deployment, while engaging with supply chain partners to resolve challenges and scale industry best practices across the data center portfolio.
• Resolve critical issues to protect project timelines and costs, driving consensus and compromise across matrixed partner organizations.

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 EOO 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.