Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead, Business Controls

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

20h • $189,000 - $274,000

About The Position

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. As a Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead within the Business Controls team, you will serve as the critical intake point between Demand Planning and execution teams within Google Data Centers. You will deeply understand the mechanics of design, delivery, schedule, and estimating and coordinate with internal organizational technical leads to provide rapid response to upstream partners. You will be responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end intake strategy for the Google Data Center execution teams. By integrating complex systems and analytics and effective coordination, you will analyze and provide risk-adjusted options that provide leadership and Capacity Planning teams with clear options and levers for rapid response. In this role, you will use your strong coordination skills, deep organizational reach and interrogate schedule, cost, and delivery impact ensuring that every scenario is technically sound, financially viable, and strategically aligned with the organization's long-term capacity goals. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in mission critical programs (e.g., data centers), with a focus on design, delivery, scheduling, and estimating.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• 8 years of experience validating technical inputs.
• 8 years of experience building demand-vs-deployment.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or advanced degree in Strategy or Analytics, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in finance, project controls, data center/hyperscale construction management.
• Experience in planning cash flow curve development with the ability to link physical progress (schedule/delivery) to financial forecasting and business controls.
• Ability to translate complex technical risks into clear, high-level optionality and strategic recommendations for executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate the strategic integration of capacity intake across Design, Delivery, Scheduling, and Estimating teams to ensure a unified approach to capacity response and resource allocation.
• Utilize deep domain knowledge in design and construction workflows to develop sophisticated demand-versus-deployment scenarios and evaluate the technical risks and benefits of various deployment options.
• Support the integration of data systems to automate analytics, providing real-time visibility into the capacity pipeline and organizational throughput, and lead the analysis of complex planning cash flow curves.
• Provide the Capacity Planning teams with actionable optionality through data-driven modeling, and develop strategic levers—such as project sequencing or resource shifts, to provide rapid-response solutions as needed.

Benefits

• 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level