Program Manager III, Supply Chain, Data Center Equipment
Atlanta, GA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, or Operations roles within a manufacturing or technology environment.
- 2 years of Supply Chain experience, including full product launches (NPI) and managing product phase-outs (EOL).
- Experience across all phases of a product lifecycle from prototype to mass production to end-of-life.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in negotiating early funding and managing capacity across multiple, global suppliers.
- Ability to customize communications based on the audience, interacting effectively with technical, non-technical, and executive groups.
- Ability to be highly skilled at working and excelling in a highly ambiguous/unstructured environment, employing critical thinking and sound judgment.
- Ability to successfully deliver products and manage projects, and in-depth knowledge of project management methodologies.
About the job
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 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 Supply Chain Program Manager, you are responsible for ensuring supply chain readiness for multiple programs with specific attention to: supply chain and lead time optimization, multi-sourcing and material, production readiness, ramp up and availability for data center equipment, which includes managing supply chain risks and communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your programs often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players co-ordinated on each project's progress and deadlines.In this role, you will lead all aspects of supply chain readiness and execution for critical data center equipment. You will focus on product types, including construction/building modules and high-value equipment that form the backbone of the Google Data Center fleet.As a leader, you will be the primary liaison between Google and its suppliers, driving End-to-End (E2E) material, inventory, and production readiness from product inception through mass deployment. You will implement processes and systems that ensure the efficient, timely, and high-quality delivery of innovative products to our global data centers.The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.We're behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end supply chain readiness, inventory strategies, and "clear-to-build" status to enable the global production ramp of data center equipment.
- Design and institutionalize scalable frameworks and processes to optimize capacity, reduce lead times, and manage material flow across the global network.
- Serve as the primary liaison for suppliers, managing production schedules, purchase orders, and strategic material commitments to ensure on-time project delivery.
- Identify supply chain risks and execute mitigation strategies while maintaining comprehensive documentation of global supply maps, procurement models, and logistics.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Planning, and Category Managers to drive continuous process improvements, system optimizations, and represent the supply chain organization in program updates.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.