Technical Program Manager, Data Center Network Delivery

About the job

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

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 force 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational governance across APAC network portfolios; steer weekly metro reviews, stakeholder syncs, and executive dashboards tracking risk, milestone health, and capacity demand.
• Drive delivery velocity across Build-to-Plan (BTP), Co-locations (GIM), and Cluster Planning initiatives, eliminating hardware, site, and engineering blockers on the critical path.
• Establish RAID frameworks, triage high-priority issues, resolve P0 blockers, and partner cross-functionally on proactive mitigation strategies.
• Align upstream demand forecasting with downstream execution, collaborating with Planning, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Network Engineering to secure capacity and stage materials.
• Lead technical due diligence and RCCA reviews to eliminate bottlenecks and optimize SOPs, while providing strategic clarity and operational frameworks to DID Delivery Technical Program Manager (T/PgMs) to scale delivery velocity.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management in the data center, networking, or telecommunications industries.
• Experience in data center networking (DCNet), optical/WAN transport, edge architectures, or campus infrastructure deployments.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading regional or metro-level infrastructure programs and aligning cross-functional partner dependencies.
• Track record of building program dashboards, operational scorecards, and executive health reports.
• Familiarity with supply chain and logistics concepts.
• Ability to perform root-cause corrective action (RCCA) analyses and optimize engineering execution processes.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative, and presentation skills.
• Technical acumen and stakeholder management skills to influence cross-functional engineering and operations teams without direct authority.