Technical Program Manager, Machine Learning PMO, Data Centers

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Data Center Delivery and Execution (DCDE) team is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead multi-disciplinary engineering projects from requirements to delivery, plan schedules, identify risks, and clearly communicate them to executives and engineers.

The role spans data center design, engineering and construction, enabling real-time, impactful decisions and cross-functional collaboration across teams to drive program success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of program management experience.
• 3 years of experience managing ML programs and building applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Prioritize program goals, translate stakeholders' needs into goals and deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritization.
• Review key metrics, monitor deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
• Identify, communicate, and collaborate with stakeholders to drive impact; build and maintain dashboards.
• Report ML progress, mitigations, and learnings to leadership.

Skills

Program management

ML program management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management.
  
• 3 years of experience managing Machine Learning programs and building applications.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience working with large-scale mission critical facility’s data center components, machines, and sequences.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

About the job:

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Data Center Delivery and Execution (DCDE) team is a collection of Data Center Design, Engineering and Construction experts.

This role will ensure the execution readiness and effectiveness across data center delivery. This team works across the sphere of many cross-functional teams, data, policies, and people to align, enable and ultimately serve the build.
This program aims to serve the build, by enabling team members that are closest to the sites to comfortably and confidently make real-time, impactful decisions while also getting the support from leadership when escalating issues in accordance with established guidelines. Ensuring projects are confidently delivered for the business while expediting technical directions in accordance with established guidelines/agreements.
Ultimately, we want each team member to efficiently channel their efforts into impactful tasks that drive our organizational success.

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:

• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to understand or identify defined work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
• Prioritize program goals, understand and translate other stakeholders needs into program goals and prioritized deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritizing goals and deliverables.
• Review key metrics pertaining to a program, monitor potential metric deviations, and define corrective actions for critical deviations.
• Identify, communicate, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders within one or more teams to drive impact and work toward mutual goals. Build, maintain and enhance business, operational, and management dashboards.
• Report for leadership consumption on ML progress, mitigations, and learnings.