Senior Technical Program Manager, Edge Capacity - Google
Reston, VA
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in program management or driving programs
- 8 years of capacity planning, network diagnostics, network configuration, or internet infrastructure experience within a edge networking environment
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience of leading technical programs in a cross-functional multi-team setting
- Direct experience in deploying technical infrastructure at a global scale.
- Experience with transformative strategy execution
- Capable of technical deep-dives into design specifications
- Ability to lead and to upscale the organization by implementing best practices and safe-to-fail experiments, identifying process gaps, aligning across teams to scale horizontal processes.
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.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
- Serve as technical lead for Edge network on-net solutions; Support Design teams, Deployment teams, and Planners as needed to deliver end to end connectivity to the Google network
- Ensure that adequate road-maps and life-cycle-management (LCM) plans are in place for the on-net edge network; define, Execute and Implement a strategy that transforms the team to meet the business needs
- Drive continuous improvements to Identify planning, process, tooling, documentation and reporting gaps, aligning across teams
- Build and nurture a collaborative, high performance partnership between your team and partner teams (e.g. GNT, GNS, NDE, etc)
- Provide individual contribution and ownership towards the broader organization’s program portfolio, leading cross-functional initiatives with key stakeholders to drive organizational transformation together