Program Manager II, New Product Introduction Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

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.

In this role as a Product Planning Program Manager (PgM), you will join a dedicated team of planners tasked with analyzing the capacity demands of our product areas. Your primary focus will be ensuring Google maintains the optimal infrastructure specifically compute machinery. You will lead demand-supply planning and execution for critical AI/ML compute products. Partnering closely with internal stakeholders across planning, procurement, logistics, and finance, you will oversee product planning operations that empower Google's expanding cloud infrastructure. Additionally, you will drive cross-functional collaboration to define requirements for new workflows and software platforms, aligning key teams to facilitate strategic decision-making and support sustainable, efficient, and predictable growth.
This team is responsible for enabling and accelerating Google's data center infrastructure growth and delivery through AI-Powered Supply Chain Planning for all of Google, drive planning decisions for new technology, and supply capability across data centers, networking, and machines. The team focuses on driving the forecasting, demand and supply planning, execution capability/feasibility management of data center compute & storage infrastructure products.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- 2 years of experience in program or project management.

- Experience in product planning and New Product Introduction (NPI).

- Experience in demand, supply planning & materials management.

Preferred qualifications:

- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization with experience leading cross-functional process improvements.

- Excellent analytical skills including experience in data modeling, trend analysis, statistics, forecasting, or business insights.

- Demonstrated sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end project life-cycle, and knowledge of the tools and elements of project management.

- Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members.

- Comfortable shifting between detailed analysis and big picture thinking and customizing communication based on the audience.

- Own the end-to-end product planning. Drive monthly plan updates, presenting demand-supply analysis and risks to senior leadership.

- Manage end-to-end product fulfillment including New Product Introduction (NPI) planning, forecast publish, supplier commits, and logistics while reporting supply risks.

- Partner closely with manufacturing operations, commodity, and New Product Introduction (NPI) product operations teams to align on deployment plans, manage supply constraints, and optimize allocations.

- Advocate for continuous improvement initiatives for planning & operation systems such as Kinaxis RapidResponse, E2Open, and SAP.

- Influence demand/supply strategy via deep analytics and maximize supply chain flexibility.