Program Manager II, Capacity Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience in spreadsheet modeling (i.e., Scenario Planning, Monte Carlo simulation, Sensitivity Analysis).
• Experience in cloud capacity planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience across Cloud Capacity Planning and Operations.
• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with Product, Technical expertise with Infrastructure, Cloud, and Enterprise B2B.
• Experience with stakeholder management with the ability to create effective relationships and collaborate at all organizational levels with various cross-functional partners.
• Ability to deliver effective presentations with insights and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders and support Cloud Leadership by synthesizing business context, risk/opportunities, and organizational priorities to deliver business goals.
• Excellent investigative, problem-solving, and communication skills with executive-level stakeholders, with excellent business acumen.

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.

Google Cloud Platform is growing its global footprint and product offerings, while changing the way the world uses computing. Capacity at the right place, at the right time, in the right form is a prerequisite to meet customer needs, enable GCP business growth, and run the business efficiently. The team is building a customer focused capacity planning team with the goal of providing a consistent, predictable and collaborative capacity experience for GCP customers.

As a Program Manager, you will help drive Forecasting and Execution strategies by orchestrating alignment across teams and incorporating business intelligence and baseline/event driven inputs. In addition, this role will drive process/system improvement initiatives with cross-functional teams. You will also drive portfolio-wide business strategies, policies, and standard operating procedures to drive scale.

The AI and Infrastructure team works on the world's toughest problems, redefining what's possible and the possible easy. We empower Google customers by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Googler Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're at the center of amazing work at Google by being the "flywheel" that enables our advanced AI models, delivers computing power across global services, and offers platforms that developers use to build services.

In AI and Infrastructure, we shape the future of hyperscale computing by inventing and creating world-leading future technology, and drive global impact by contributing to Google infrastructure, from software to hardware (including building Vertex AI for Google Cloud). We work on complex technologies at a global scale with key players in the AI and systems space. Join a team of talented individuals who not only work together to keep data centers operating efficiently but also create a legacy of driving innovation by building some of the most complex systems technologies.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $126,000-$181,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities:

• Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) capacity planning to support cloud growth and enable business with Inventory Efficiency goal/Annual Operational Expenditure (OpEx) by driving Machine Capacity Deployment.
• Manage Capacity Demand/Supply planning through cross-functional engagement to minimize capacity risks impacting Business, Spend, and Efficiency goals.
• Drive capacity deployment strategies maximizing capacity availability to enable business while optimizing cost-to-serve to deliver margin.
• Develop capacity recommendations to the Cloud leadership by framing and structuring ambiguous, business implications across a range of available data sets and analysis.
• Drive process improvements and system enhancements in partnership with cross-functional teams. Collaborate with the Engineering Developer team to drive System Automation initiatives.

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