Technical Program Manager, Digital Buildings Deployment

Key Skills

Cyber Security, Data science techniques, Infrastructure as code, Optimization, Program Management

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience in program management
• Experience in procurement and negotiation with vendors including managed service delivery
• Experience managing programs for a portfolio of buildings in multiple geographies to defined timelines, budgets, and quality metrics
• Experience preparing presentation materials for executive briefings, team updates, and conferences

Preferred qualifications:

• An industry certification in smart buildings, control systems, IoT systems, IoT cyber security, energy management or similar
• Communication skills and ability to represent the organization internally and externally
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Skills in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and achieving objectives on schedule within budget
• A track record of delivering technology and technical infrastructure in corporate real estate across multiple locations
• Ability and flexibility to travel internationally

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Digital Buildings team is part of the Technical Infrastructure team in Google’s Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) organization. The team is responsible for the strategy behind the systems in our workplace buildings including IoT and digital building infrastructure. The team is the leader and a major contributor to the Building Operating System (BOS) program, Google's smart buildings platform for it's real estate portfolio.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Direct large complex strategic programs which may include any aspect of IoT (control systems, cyber security, data science, business use cases, solutions, optimization, sustainability).
• Co-own the architecture, processes, charters and standards for IoT and control systems, including functionality and cyber security. Implement them in new construction and existing buildings deployment programs.
• Direct the technical and commercial strategy of the programs including establishing technical criteria, developing the procurement approach, vendor management, risk mitigation, resolving escalations, and delivery of the projects.
• Develop targets for the new construction and existing buildings programs in your region, track progress, and take corrective action.
• Establish working relationships with executives, stakeholders and external partners to set expectations, maintain alignment, and give progress updates for the deployment programs. This may include presenting at internal and external conferences and preparing white papers.