Technical Program Management, Network Infrastructure

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**Minimum qualifications**:

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

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in program management in the networking area with delivering infrastructure assets and vendor management.
- Knowledge of fiber optic systems / submarine cable ecosystem. Working experience with Asian and global carrier networks.
- Ability to exercise business and technical understanding to drive the long-term objectives of the organization.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and identifying opportunities for optimization whilst possessing analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong problem solving and financial skills. Adopt data-driven, analytical approach towards solving complex challenges.

**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 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.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

The Global Network Aquisition APAC team leads the planning, design, acquisition and long term scaling of Google's Production networks in Asia. We ensure our network can support the growth of all existing and new products and services in Asia cost efficiently and on-time.

Our responsibility includes securing and building network infrastructure, from colocation space, metro fiber, longhaul networks, to submarine capacity/cables and related infrastructure across many countries in Asia.

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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with internal business and cross-functional networking technical teams to identify and define tactical and strategic initiatives necessary to meet Google's network infrastructure needs for both expansion and cost optimization across Asia.
- Present network plans for approval by all internal stakeholders. Plan complexity will range from short-term metro augments to long-term region-wide strategies for Google network in Asia.
- Manage projects and the approved network plan with internal contributors such as network negotiators or vendor delivery managers to ensure infrastructure is delivered on-time.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define and improve business processes to enable automation, reduce lead time and manage changes.
- Partner with network negotiators in planning and execution of orders and contracts, and in vendors meetings and industry conferences.

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