Technical Program Manager III, Capacity Planning, Geo

Google • Mountain View, CA

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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 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.

As the home of Google Maps, Geo serves the needs of over 2B active users
worldwide. Geo Capacity Planning is a high-caliber team critical to sustaining
this global footprint by forecasting resources, managing provisioning, and
overseeing multi-million dollar infrastructure budgets across all Geo business
entities and multiple different resource pools. We ensure that Geo’s organic
growth and new feature launches are adequately supported by the underlying data
center resource infrastructure and play a strategic role in negotiating annual
resource budgets and facilitating prioritization discussions with Geo leadership
to enable this.

In this role, you will own the functional and operational ownership of resource
allocations to different Geo verticals, setting internal resource budgets, and
guide strategic process changes and development and adoption of automated tools
to streamline operations and provide leadership visibility for decision making.

The Geo team is focused on building the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful
maps for our users, through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, Google Maps
Platform, and more. Every month, more than a billion people rely on Maps
services to explore the world and navigate their daily lives.

The Geo team also enables developers to use the power of Google Maps platforms
to enhance their apps and websites. As they plot a course for the future of
mapping, they are solving complex computer science problems, designing beautiful
and intuitive product experiences, and improving our understanding of the real
world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with data center capacity planning.
• Experience with data analytics and resource management.

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience writing complex scripts for data analytics and infrastructure performance monitoring.
• Experience in Program and Resource Management (PARM) roles, data center infrastructure (e.g., compute/storage/networking), or supply chain/capacity planning, Geo/mapping technologies.
• Experience developing forecasting methods growth, including large-scale product launches or migrations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with search stack resource management to incorporate new budgeting methods and develop advanced forecasting models to support systemic process changes.
• Lead the migration of business-critical workloads from Best Effort (BE) to Guaranteed Batch (GB) or the new Prod Batch (e.g., Shinkansen) tier to mitigate resource volatility and ensure Service Level Objective (SLO) adherence. Post-Migration owns the management of this pool.
• Manage the full lifecycle of capacity requests from forecasting and business justification to provisioning and launch of Geo’s services running in the search stack.
• Ensure alignment among executive cross-functional stakeholders across Geo product groups and partners (e.g., core, search and capital engineering) on critical resource decisions.
• Develop an engagement model to calibrate budget assumptions, flag major upcoming inorganic needs to partner on, unblock execution risks, and enable demand shaping in light of supply constraints.

What This Job Offers

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