Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in a formal project management role.
- 10 years of experience working in a technological field.
- 10 years of experience influencing across a cross-functional organization.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience as a project manager, and experience working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams and customer bases.
- Knowledge in data networking architectures and physical network components.
- Ability to grow and navigate ambiguity, and create order.
- Ability to build multiple executive stakeholder relationships.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously and to learn new business and technical skills and to adapt to changing environments.
- Ability to communicate with executive level decision makers.
About the job
Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.
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're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Lead a regional team to deliver all terrestrial line systems, including long haul, local long haul, metro transport, and associated layer 3 WAN capacity.
- Provide leadership and management for implementation teams located across multiple geographies and regions, building leadership to manage operational work while driving alignment across teams with potentially conflicting priorities.
- Lead the integration of cross-functional or cross-organizational process timelines and drive recommendations for process improvements and automation.
- Develop measurement systems for your organization and apply statistical process control to continuously improve performance regarding speed and quality. Lead cross-functional initiatives with key stakeholders to build leadership capabilities and drive organizational transformation together.
- Develop collaborative relationships with internal partners and vendors focused on continuous improvement of processes and automation to enable on-time delivery.
