Program Manager III, Demand and Supply Planning, Cloud Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience in demand/supply planning or forecasting.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• Experience with supply/demand planning, material planning, data center infrastructure, or capital investment decision making.
• Knowledge of the tools and elements of project management.
• Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization with experience leading cross-functional process improvements.

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.

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.

The Global Infrastructure Group (GIG) within GCD is responsible for driving optimal fulfillment and transforming Google's fleet by balancing and shaping demand intent from Product Areas, deployment decisions for new technology, and supply capability across data centers, networking, and machines.

Within GIG, the Network Planning team focuses on driving the forecasting, demand and supply planning, execution capability/feasibility management of data center networking infrastructure products.

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 $139,000-$207,000 + 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.

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

• Manage Supply/Demand Planning for data center networking infrastructure parts required to support deployments of network fabric racks.
• Establish and utilize best methods (e.g., statistical models, processes, and software tools) in creating supply forecasts and respective inventory goals.
• Present Supply and Demand recommendations to leadership, drive timely decisions, and ensure clear and concise communication to all stakeholders in the supply chain.
• Work with partner teams in procurement, materials management to track supply commits, and provide supply response to upstream deployment teams.
• Drive necessary mitigation actions and prioritization, allocation decisions with procurement, GCM teams to minimize impact to Google's capacity delivery.