Manager, Compute Resource, Platforms and Devices

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 Platforms and Devices Compute Resource Management team performs demand signaling, manages allocations, and monitors utilization of pools of compute resources for product groups within the Platforms and Devices Product Area, such as android, chrome, and artificial intelligence innovation and research.

As a member of the Platforms and Devices Compute Resource Management team, you will execute highly technical initiatives related to machine resource planning, operational programs for demand signaling and allocation, metrics collection and analysis, and rollout of new tools and capabilities. You will work cross-functionally with key product group stakeholders across different disciplines and individual resource users to help them identify ways to access compute resources easily and educate them on efficient usage and new platform features.

You will also collaborate with finance, product area resource managers, resource managers, technical program managers, program managers, site reliability engineers, and software engineers across google and alphabet to share best practices and provide user feedback on constantly evolving infrastructure.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop and rollout operational processes and tools for compute resources based on best practices and feedback from Product Group stakeholders and users. Coordinate implementation timelines and communications with stakeholders.
• Establish metrics to inform planning decisions and measure efficiency and utilization, including reporting and alerting.
• Configure technical resource management automation tools. Troubleshoot errors in various infrastructure platforms.
• Produce user guides, process documentation, and other forms of educational resources.
• Collect inorganic demand signals from engineer teams and clarify the prioritization of machine allocations. This may include working with site reliability engineering (SRE) and establishing a formal process for forecasting growth.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• 8 years general program management experience.
• Experience in program management foundations with effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience identifying process improvements and quantifying impact.
• Excellent problem solving and investigative skills.