Minimum qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure planning, capacity planning, strategy, finance, business operations, or management consulting.
- 8 years of experience leading cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Product, Finance, or Operations organizations.
- 8 years of experience performing quantitative analysis and presenting recommendations to executive leadership.
Preferred qualifications:- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience in infrastructure strategy, capacity planning, investment planning, or large-scale operational planning.
- Experience developing executive reporting, planning insights, KPIs, or decision-support frameworks.
- Experience evaluating investment trade-offs, business cases, and planning scenarios.
- Excellent problem solving, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex planning problems into clear, data-driven recommendations.
About the jobA 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.
Build and operate an integrated infrastructure planning capability for Alphabet that covers the 0-10 year horizon, transforming product demand, infrastructure constraints, and financial objectives into actionable capacity decisions and a unified infrastructure Plan of Record.
The mission of the organization is to deliver planning intelligence and decision support, establishing common planning assumptions, telemetry, execution policies/principles, reporting and explainability that enable consistent planning and higher-confidence executive decision-making; integrated planning and execution, translating rapidly evolving product and business demand into integrated infrastructure plans spanning short-, medium- and long-term planning horizons; scenario evaluation and tradeoff analysis, enabling rapid evaluation of alternatives, supply constraints, and investment tradeoffs to support infrastructure allocation and prioritization decisions; and planning scalability and automation, improving planning velocity, consistency, and scalability through workflow automation, integrated planning systems, and operational tooling.
As a Planning Intelligence Lead, you will lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Product Areas, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science. You will transform complex planning data into executive insights, strategic recommendations, and investment decisions that shape Google's infrastructure roadmap.
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 the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits
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Responsibilities - Build Alphabet's Planning Intelligence capability, including executive reporting, planning telemetry, KPIs, and decision support across demand, supportability, affordability, and infrastructure planning.
- Translate planning data into executive-ready insights, business cases, investment recommendations, and infrastructure trade-off analyses.
- Define planning assumptions, metrics, execution policies, and demand-to-Plan-of-Record traceability to improve planning consistency, transparency, and explainability.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Data Science to integrate planning signals into a unified Infrastructure Plan of Record.
- Lead strategic planning analyses that improve planning quality, forecast stability, planning velocity, and infrastructure investment decisions. Partner with Engineering to define business requirements for planning tooling, reporting, automation, and planning intelligence capabilities.
