Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience managing the construction of undersea fiber optic cables or other undersea infrastructure (umbilical, pipeline, power cable, flexible, etc.).
- 8 years of experience in technical program management working cross-functionally.
Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge of construction agreements and the ability to interpret them and apply clauses as issues arise with the supplier.
- Understanding of telecommunications submarine cable fiber optic technical design and installation, including manufacturing process, quality assurance, marine standard procedures, and safety.
- Ability to apply judgment to address gaps and support decision-making.
- Excellent attention to detail, along with excellent communication, organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
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.
In this role, you will drive fiber optic submarine cable construction projects for the Global Network Services team. You will work with submarine cable vendors, partners, and internal teams through collaboration and teamwork with Negotiators, Technical Program Managers, Network Deployment Engineers, Product Managers and Network Architects. You will lead cross-functional teams in driving the genesis and completion of submarine cable projects.
Responsibilities
- Communicate with internal business owners to collect drivers and deadlines for delivering submarine construction projects.
- Collaborate with partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders to drive the construction of submarine cable systems, including tendering process, selection of vendors, creation of plan of work, spent budget, and technical review of design, manufacturing, and installation plans.
- Deliver the necessary assets in order to land submarine cable systems.
- Own execution of supply agreements for submarine cable construction projects, including coordination of work between customers and suppliers.