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Head of Energy Portfolio Planning

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

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JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
Today
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Systems, Finance, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with direct reports.
  • Experience in energy portfolio management, energy system planning, or infrastructure strategy.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  • Experience leading large-scale, complex technical programs from strategic design through to execution in high-growth environments.

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 various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As the Technical Program Manager for Energy Portfolio Planning, you will lead the long-term strategic design of our energy and power portfolio to align with business goals of scale, cost-efficiency, and reliability. In this capacity, you will serve as the bridge across Energy and Power, and internal partner teams to develop and integrate multi-faceted portfolio design, ensuring that advanced technical solutions and long-term portfolio design solutions are integrated into planning workstreams and implemented across the broader portfolio. You will work at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and energy strategy to drive flexibility and efficiency into how our compute resources interact with the power grid, better enabling our infrastructure to scale alongside AI growth while meeting carbon-free energy goals. By leading complex program management and internal stakeholder engagement, you will ensure our energy portfolio is not only robust enough for today’s demands but also dynamic enough to support the next decade of innovation.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $240,000-$334,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the energy portfolio design function, integrating frontier technical solutions and long-term strategies to achieve goals across scale, cost-efficiency, reliability, and carbon-free energy.
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define optimal system designs for power grids, including the development of market frameworks, technology roadmaps, and infrastructure strategy.
  • Design and implement future energy operating frameworks and portfolio outlooks specifically tailored to support the rapid scaling of AI-driven compute resources.
  • Collaborate with supply strategy and asset planning teams to identify and integrate critical inputs that define the long-term strategic direction of the global portfolio.
  • Evaluate and overhaul existing energy management methodologies to implement structural changes that improve overall scalability and cost-efficiency.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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