Technical Program Manager, Energy and Location Strategy

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or technical project management.
• Experience in power transmission and distribution, telecommunications infrastructure, data center technology, industrial class electrical and cooling technology, or other related areas of technical expertise.
• Experience with real estate markets within Energy and Location Strategy (ELS) and establishing infrastructure in markets.

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience managing projects and supporting the planning and development of agreements.
• Experience in collocation agreements, site selection for industrial-scale projects, real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, construction, utility agreements management, energy challenges, implementing clean energy initiatives, or financial modeling.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.
  

As a Location Strategy and Site Selection Technical Program Manager, you'll work within Google’s EMEA Regional Acquisition and Development team leading complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You will 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.

This role involves integrating Cloud and ML/AI planning, as well as energy strategy across new and existing data centers, and supporting tactical deals for current and future developments. You will create reports on key metrics and deliverables, providing updates to leadership on ongoing portfolio management and special projects. You will develop a holistic view of supply options and associated trade-offs, serving as the primary contact and escalation point for cross-functional planning teams, both within and outside of Energy and Location Strategy (ELS).

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.

• Be accountable for the analytics supporting the planning, delivery of all data center location strategy and site selection work in EMEA,  including working closely with a cross functional team of Strategic Negotiators, Public Affairs Managers, Energy Negotiators, Markets/regulatory Negotiators,  and analytical functions.
• Play a key technical role in supporting and validating the analytical frameworks  and business cases.
• Develop and maintain the long term plans and manage the articulation of the associated tactical plans for each sub region and/or metro area.
• Develop localised portfolio analysis with partner teams to aid in articulating specific detailed metro plans including ensuring the rhythm of approvals is maintained  to support execution plans.
• Advocate and represent the organization’s core priorities with Regional leadership and other cross-functional teams and leads, and external parties.