Program Manager III, NPI Fleet Transitions, Cloud Supply Chain

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; San Francisco, CA, USA. Minimum qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 5 years of experience in program or project management. Experience in more than one supply chain discipline (e.g demand planning, supply planning, manufacturing operations, data center operations, etc.). Experience in new product introduction. Preferred qualifications 5 years of experience managing cross‑functional or cross‑team projects. Ability to influence without direct authority, work across siloed domains, and facilitate agile decision making. Ability to embrace that definitive plans are not feasible due to inherently changing the nature of NPI and approach each engagement with an agile and adaptive mindset. Ability to generate multiple what‑if scenarios, define corresponding plans of action, adjust plans as unknown variables become known and orchestrate closed‑loop execution across multiple functional teams. Excellent listening and communication skills to represent a range of topics with audiences of different levels. 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 complex, 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. Fleet Transition Management team’s mission is to steer, shape, and land product transitions into the Google fleet at scale, with minimal disruption to capacity delivery by collaborating across Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO), PIE (Platforms Infrastructure Engineering), and Product Areas (PAs). In this role, you will help steer and land technology transitions for one of the largest compute and storage infrastructures in the world, enabling Google to provide amazing products to its users. Use business and technical judgment to ensure that Google’s services can be deployed in a time, place and configuration ideal for serving its users, managing technology introduction while optimizing demand and supply availability to be ready where and when it is needed. You will collaborate across various stakeholder teams to drive the future state and technologies of our infrastructure. You must demonstrate the ability to lead projects to successful completion, evaluate supply chain planning data and understand complex technical topics affecting Google services and users. 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 keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible. The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $159,000‑$231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Responsibilities Work cross‑functionally to ensure technology transitions are landed seamlessly with minimal disruption to capacity delivery to Product Areas (PAs). Develop transition strategy, steer multi‑scenario transition planning during NPI product lifecycle phases and execute transition landing into the fleet at scale. Serves as the escalation point‑of‑contact for all transition related issues. Develop strong relationships with partner teams to drive alignment and structured communication across multiple organizational stakeholders. Drive closed‑loop change event management – detection, impact analysis, re‑planning and execution of plans of record across all relevant systems of record and teams. Drive development and optimization of fleet transition processes and tools to automate and scale. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Google