Business Program Manager, Global Data Centers - Google
Kansas City, MO
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience in accounting and managing accounts payable and accounts receivable.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with project planning, status reporting, timeline estimation, issue tracking, meeting facilitation, or process documentation.
- Experience in stakeholder management.
- Ability to work collaboratively on a team, be adaptable in exercising judgment in a changing environment, and manage engaging priorities.
- Ability to build relationships and deliver results in a cross-functional environment.
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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
As a Data Center Site Business Program Manager, you will support our facilities technicians, managing agreements of all facility related systems. You will plan cost control and agreement management for maintenance tasks and small projects, and work closely with the site environment, health and safety department to ensure safety operations. You will have a pivotal role in ensuring that contractors deliver quality services according to agreed key performance indicators and that safety measures are being performed.
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 $87,000-$128,000 + 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 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.
Responsibilities
- Manage project goals and deliverables presented on a timeline and use the roadmap to manage stakeholder expectations, and to communicate plans and coordinate resources.
- Collaborate with team members or stakeholders to understand or identify work problems and program goals, obtain prioritized deliverables, and discuss program impact.
- Manage risk identification and risk assessment activities and mitigation plans in addition to monitoring foreseeable risk, and recording its evolution and influence on project or program objectives (e.g., budget, schedule, resource, technical).
- Establish and track processes in collaboration with stakeholders or teams accountable for following the established processes, identify sponsors and stakeholders and secure resources, ensure work alignment with compliance or privacy policies, identify opportunities, implement process improvements, and support or promote the adoption of processes.