Strategy and Operations Manager, Data Center Operations
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- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
- Experience working in a data center, hospital, power plant, or similar mission critical environment.
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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.
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.
- Implement communication standards across a portfolio of programs including executive and key partner communications.
- Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and resource stewardship (e.g., effective deployment of machine and people resources).
- Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making. Ensure governance structure effectively exposes and mitigates dependencies.
- Identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and which affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it is used effectively.
- Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that lead the high business impact for the organization and product area.