Technical Program Manager III, Capacity Planning, Technical Infrastructure

Google; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead cross-functional, multi-disciplinary engineering projects within Google Cloud Platform. You will partner with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage risks, and deliver technical solutions from start to finish.

You will mentor teams on capacity planning, progress measurement, and process improvement while communicating tradeoffs to executives and engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in capacity planning, demand planning, or supply chain.
• Experience working with engineering teams.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Track record delivering complex software products and PM knowledge.
• Ability to establish systems to improve processes with performance metrics.
• Excellent communication and multitasking skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead several engineering program management efforts for a fast-paced engineering team.
• Identify stakeholders and plan objectives and success criteria.
• Manage project schedules and communicate issues to stakeholders.
• Oversee release schedules and milestones to maintain high velocity.

Skills

Capacity planning

Demand planning

Supply chain

Engineering collaboration

Cross-functional projects

Project management

Communication

Problem solving

Organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

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

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.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in capacity planning, demand planning, or supply chain.
• Experience working with engineering teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Track record of successfully delivering complex software products, in-depth knowledge of project management
• Ability to establish systems to continuously improve our business processes, products, or services on an ongoing basis, through measurement of performance, progress, and success metrics.
• Exceptional skills influencing and delivering solutions in a highly complex, always changing, and nebulous environment.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and problem-solving skills. Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.

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.

As a Technical Program Manager with Google Cloud Platform, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise, with a focus on capacity planning programs and processes. You proactively identify, organize, and lead portfolio activities and stakeholders in order to successfully deliver technical solutions. You scope, phase, and lead ambiguous cross-functional and cross-organizational challenges including delivering downstream change management, alongside your stakeholder team. You ensure alignment of senior cross-functional and cross-organizational stakeholders. You have advanced knowledge of the domain of your program. You also engage in community contributions to improve and sustain our culture and operations making Google a better place to work.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We’re the driving force behind Google’s groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

US: $163000 – $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead several engineering program management for a fast paced, innovative engineering team. Work hand-in-hand with our cross-organizational engineering, product and business stakeholders to deliver outstanding program outcomes alignment with business priorities.
• Identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria.
• Manage project schedules, identify possible issues and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders and leadership.
• Take responsibility for release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a fast-paced environment.

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.