Senior Technical Program Manager, Edge Capacity - Google
Thornton, CO
About the Job
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 8 years of experience in networking.
- 5 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience managing teams in complex, geographically dispersed engineering and/or program management functions in the data center, networking, or telecommunications industries.
- Experience in deploying technical infrastructure at a global scale.
- Experience in transformation strategy execution.
- Ability to design specifications for Google network.
- Ability to lead and 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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $168,000-$252,000 + 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
- Drive continuous improvements to Identify process, tooling, documentation and reporting gaps, aligning across teams, define and scale standardized solutions.
- Support design and deployment teams, peering negotiators, and planners as needed to deliver connectivity to the Google network, including coaching around the identification of trade-offs in deployment plans, and key day-to-day operational decisions with material impact to investment or returns.
- Apply statistical process control to continuously improve the team’s performance against speed and quality Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Provide contribution and ownership towards the broader organization’s program portfolio, leading cross-functional initiatives with key stakeholders to drive organizational transformation together.
- Execute delivery of network augments, decommissions and migrations safely, on time, and in a cost efficient way. Define, execute and implement a strategy that transforms the team to meet the business needs.