Senior Technical Program Manager I, Resource Planning, Cloud Storage
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- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- Experience in two of the following areas: demand planning, capacity planning, resource planning or forecasting.
- Experience with prompt engineering, and creating agents to automate workflows, optimize data processes in capacity planning or supply chain environments.
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations or other relevant fields.
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- 5 years of domain experience in cross-functional or cross-team projects in cloud capacity or scaled supply chain.
- Experience in data modeling, trend analysis, statistics, forecasting, or business insights.
- Experience with data center hardware technology and data center capacity planning and budgeting.
- Demonstrated operational and leadership experience across automation and process initiatives. Track record of change management success across capacity planning, resource management and delivery, new product introduction, supply chain management, or infrastructure deployment.
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.
To deliver a reliable capacity planning experience for Cloud Flex customers that is efficient and scalable, while adhering to GCP financial guardrails. Core Responsibilities Planning and Forecasting creating 18-month resource forecasts (GCU, RAM, Disk) for organic growth and new launches. Ensuring supply meets demand while managing allocations and staying within financial limits. Managing resource distribution from pantries to the flex pool and coordinating with services like BigQuery and PD. Driving initiatives for a touchless capacity pipeline to reduce toil and improve efficiency.
The team ensures Cloud Flex provides the right resources at the right time. They collaborate closely with service owners, supply chain, and power planning teams to power GCP infrastructure cost-effectively. Responsible for overseeing Block Storage forecast, supply projection and machine order management to ensure sufficient capacity for Persistent Disk (PD) forecasted demand, including organic and customer-driven workloads. Own the bottoms-up forecasting process, collaborating with PD Engineering and product management to assess the impact of engineering changes on capacity plans.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $192000 - $279000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Own the bottoms-up forecasting process for PD capacity, and working with PD Engineering and Product Management to understand the impact of engineering changes on our existing capacity plans.
- Review and approve a comprehensive capacity plan for PD, considering organic growth, inorganic demand from major agreements, and business adjustments.
- Identify and mitigate risks to our capacity plan, including those arising from changes in divestment logic, supply chain disruptions, and unexpected demand spikes. Drive mitigation plans to address these risks.
- Discuss around de-duplicating organic and inorganic demand signals. Work closely with PD Engineering and Product Management (PdM) to understand product roadmaps, new features, and their capacity implications.
- Partner with ODS on demand forecasting, modeling, and the development of more scalable and automated planning systems. Collaborate with regional CE leaders to provide input on customer workload prioritization.
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