Senior Technical Program Manager, Cloud Market Expansion
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with data center or networking deployments.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in cloud infrastructure and deployment.
- Ability to move and operate autonomously in a fast moving environment.
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills, with the ability to construct, articulate, and defend simple messages or insights from analysis.
- Excellent communication skills with global teams.
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 extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
Google's Data Center Cloud and Asset Portfolio Solutions team is at the forefront of building the physical foundation for Google's global cloud and AI infrastructure. As a Technical Program Manager for Cloud Market Expansion, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that our real estate strategy aligns seamlessly with the dynamic and evolving demands of cloud computing and the broader market. You will be the bridge between our technical cloud infrastructure needs and the physical realities of our data center facilities.
You will leverage your understanding of cloud market trends, technical requirements, and data center real estate to drive strategic decisions on where and how we expand our global footprint.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Analyze global cloud market trends, including hyperscale growth, hybrid/multi-cloud adoption, and demand for specific cloud services, to inform strategic data center real estate decisions.
- Translate complex technical cloud infrastructure requirements (e.g., power density, cooling, network connectivity, latency, security, compliance) into actionable real estate specifications for site selection, design, and development.
- Collaborate with real estate and engineering teams to identify, evaluate, and recommend optimal data center sites based on technical criteria, market conditions, and business objectives.
- Advise on data center acquisition, leasing, and build strategies, continuously seeking opportunities for cost optimization, scalability, and operational efficiency across our real estate portfolio.
- Partner closely with internal cloud engineering, network, security, Finance, and legal teams, as well as external data center developers, landlords, and utility providers, to execute comprehensive data center strategies.
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