Program Manager III, Connectivity Planning, Google Enterprise Network - Google
Austin, TX
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management working with a cross-functional organization.
- Experience with vendor management, people management and financial analysis.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience managing relationships with telecommunications providers, such as Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.
- Experience with hardware life cycle.
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.
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.Responsibilities
- Create multi-year metro or region level network strategies to provide flexible connectivity meeting technical, operational and business requirements while balancing performance and cost.
- Evaluate alternatives and develop estimates for project-specific feasibility studies. Prepare drawings, maps, scopes of work, and other materials as needed to describe projects to external vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Create and present cases for long-term business in network and infrastructure.
- Execute agreements for metro-ethernet, internet, dark fiber, and wavelength services under existing master agreements.
- Communicate and engage with internal teams, Deploy, Network Engineering, Service Delivery, Production, and Operations.