Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program management influencing across a cross-functional organization.
  
• Experience in network planning, architecture, or design with a technology or telecommunications company.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  
• Experience with design and delivery of telecommunications fiber, space/power, capacity infrastructure or data center construction.
  
• Experience with fiber network deployments, including constructing new outside and inside plant fiber infrastructure.
  

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 technical and leadership expertise, you run Engineering-focused projects that are well-defined under supervision.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Understand partner team dependencies, constraints, designs, and forecast mechanisms that impact the business by engaging early and often, collaborating on process improvements and communication.
  
• Program manage the delivery of network infrastructure projects from inception through delivery.
  
• Collaborate with Cloud and networking technical teams to intake, analyze and develop cost and executable plans for Cloud networking requests. 
  
• Lead google-wide strategic network initiatives from concept to plan definition and hand-off to execution teams by refining large scale ambiguous projects to well defined problems, processes, and solutions.
  
• Work closely with customers to gather requirements, manage stakeholder expectations and provide clear program plans for reliable product delivery. Partner with engineering teams and third party vendors to deliver network engineering and infrastructure design.