Technical Program Manager, EMEA WAN Infrastructure and Capacity

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in optical networking on planning, deployment or operations.

Preferred qualifications:

• Understanding of project managing the deployment of terrestrial or subsea optical network infrastructure engineering design and construction projects.
• Ability to manage project priorities and technical resources and have relationships with multiple partner-teams, directors, or vendors.
• Ability to identify opportunities for and drive cross-functional process improvements across the organization.
• Excellent communication skills combined with a data-driven analytical approach towards solving complex challenges.

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.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Ireland: €94000 - €96500 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Lead large-scale EMEA optical transport and capacity projects (including metro/long-haul, fiber, waves, colo, power, and inside/outside plant) from initial inception through final delivery.
• Manage project scope changes, assess impacts, and mitigate issues, risks, and exceptions across the organization to keep simultaneous, competing priorities on track.
• Lead cross-functional teams, align upstream planning and engineering with downstream Google teams, and deliver clear status updates, analyses, and recommendations to executive management.
• Coordinate with external vendors for outsourced network builds, and facilitate the thorough review and formal acceptance of vendor handover documentation.
• Identify and drive process, software, and measurement enhancements to optimize delivery performance, network functionality, quality, and overall efficiency.

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