October 10, 2025
Lead Technical Program Manager II, Capacity Delivery
Senior • On-site
$183,000 - $271,000/yr
Addison, TX , +1
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 5 years of experience in leadership role with/without direct reports.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
- 5 years of experience in large-scale project management & process improvement in a telecom or hyperscale networking space.
- Strong knowledge of networking, data center or telecom operations.
- Excellent analytical, quantitative and presentation skills.
- Comfort with building multiple strategic stakeholder relationships.
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.
This team is responsible for the system level design and deployment of the global fiber optic network that connects Google's data centers to the world. This network allows Google to function as a global computer, ensuring continuous flow of data to and from all corners of the planet.
Our mission is to deliver WAN capacity and activate flows to enable Alphabet's dynamic growth by improving the quality of life by connecting humanity.
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.
Responsibilities
- Implement communication standards across a portfolio of programs, including executive and key partner communications.
- Establish a reliable and visible cadence for program reviews, decision-making, prioritization, and resource stewardship (effective deployment of machine and people resources) whereby improvements such as efficiency and utilization gains are measurable and the impact can be felt organization wide.
- Lead a governance structure that drives effective executive decision-making. Ensure governance structure effectively exposes and mitigates dependencies.
- Seek out and identify change management opportunities that increase program velocity and affect multiple teams. Apply governance over change management to ensure it’s used effectively.
- Define/manage a program portfolio solving problems that target high business impact for the organization and product area.
