Technical Program Manager III, Resource Planning, Cloud Storage

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects, planning requirements, risks, schedules, and clear communication with cross-functional partners. You will deliver a reliable, efficient, and scalable capacity planning experience for Cloud Flex customers within GCP guardrails.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, executive communication, and driving initiatives for a touchless capacity pipeline to reduce toil and improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program management experience.
• Experience in two of demand planning, capacity planning, resource planning or forecasting.
• Experience with prompt engineering and creating agents to automate workflows in capacity planning or supply chain environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and forecast non-standard supply actions to support persistent disk capacity.
• Automate and manage persistent disk quota moves with coordination with the pool inventory management team.
• Provide visibility into CHD capacity and utilization through alerting and proactive management.
• Support diversification of hardware platforms for CHD to mitigate supply risks.
• Lead multi-platform strategy to manage protected pools and drive cost-efficient deployments.

Skills

Program management

Demand planning

Capacity planning

Resource planning

Forecasting

Prompt engineering

Automation workflows

Data optimization

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• Experience in two of the following areas: demand planning, capacity planning, resource planning or forecasting.
• Experience with prompt engineering, and creating agents to automate workflows, optimize data processes in capacity planning or supply chain environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations or other relevant fields.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 3 years of domain experience in cross-functional or cross-team projects in cloud capacity or scaled supply chain.
• Experience in data modeling, trend analysis, statistics, forecasting, or business insights as well as strong quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated operational and leadership experience across automation and process initiatives.
• Track record of change management success across capacity planning, resource management and delivery, new product introduction, supply chain management, or infrastructure deployment.

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.

To deliver a reliable, efficient, and scalable capacity planning experience for Cloud Flex customers while adhering to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) financial guardrails.
Core Responsibilities Planning and Forecasting are creating 18-month resource forecasts (GCU, RAM, Disk) for organic growth and new launches. Ensuring supply meets demand while managing allocations and staying within financial limits. Managing resource distribution from pantries to the flex pool and coordinating with services like BigQuery and PD. Driving initiatives for a touchless capacity pipeline to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
The team ensures Cloud Flex provides the right resources at the right time. They collaborate closely with service owners, supply chain, and power planning teams to power GCP infrastructure cost-effectively.

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: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for planning all non-standard supply actions required to support persistent disk capacity. Plan and execute persistent disk zone and cluster capacity moves.
• Automate and manage persistent disk quota moves, including co-planning with GCE and coordinating with the pool inventory management team on divestments to fund moves.
• Provide clear visibility into Confidential Hyperdisk (CHD) capacity and utilization through alerting and proactive management.
• Support effort to diversify hardware platforms for CHD to mitigate supply risks and increase deployment flexibility.
• Optimize and devise a multi-platform strategy to manage and operate protected pools including new turn-ups.Lead network-aware initiatives for PD, including via the minotaur and other programs.