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In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
<ul>
<li>Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance</li>
<li>Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match</li>
<li>Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment</li>
<li>Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance</li>
<li>Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks</li>
<li>Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks</li>
<li>Holidays: 13 paid days per year</li>
</ul>
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Kirkland, WA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
.
Minimum qualifications:
<ul>
<li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>5 years of experience in program or project management.</li>
<li>Experience in spares planning.</li>
<li>Experience in supply/demand planning within a data center or manufacturing environment.</li>
</ul>
Preferred qualifications:
<ul>
<li>5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.</li>
<li>Experience partnering with hardware engineering, design, and New Product Introduction (NPI) teams to translate early product signals, engineering changes, and Bill of Materials (BOMs) into actionable spares requirements.</li>
<li>Experience utilizing and optimizing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), or advanced supply chain planning systems to automate workflows and manage demand signals.</li>
<li>Background in data center infrastructure, mission-critical environments, or high-tech manufacturing, with a solid grasp of component mortality rates, cut-in logistics, and interim supply strategies.</li>
</ul>
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.
At Google, we own and operate the most advanced fleet of data centers and core technical infrastructure to power services and features used by billions of people around the world. Data Centers - Central Operations is responsible for keeping these sites operating efficiently and safely. This role is part of the Spares Supply Chain team and will be accountable for the sourcing, planning, positioning, and delivery of critical spares - assuring that data centers have their spare parts available to them when they need them. This role and peer roles on this team are critical to keeping our data centers running worldwide. As a Spares Program Manager, you are responsible for ensuring supply chain spares readiness for our data centers, with specific attention to NPI product intake, cross-functional alignment, and upstream engagement with construction teams to drive spares initiatives. This includes understanding supply chain risks due to timing, new designs, and accelerations - and building and executing on supply chain strategies to ensure spares readiness as a data center goes live and stays running.
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: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
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<ul>
<li>Create &amp; enforce structured governance processes with upstream NPI &amp; sourcing partners to establish clear spares requirements during the initial phases of onboarding a new product or supplier.</li>
<li>Apply systems thinking to analyze the end-to-end spares pipeline, proactively identifying structural gaps, process friction, or signal handoff failures, and build robust, scalable processes to resolve them on both a strategic and execution level.</li>
<li>Leverage cross-functional relationships to influence upstream stakeholders, driving the onboarding of NPI products and their unique spares requirements into standard planning, sourcing, and replenishment workflows.</li>
<li>Anticipate upcoming supply chain risks, component constraints, and/or design cut-in accelerations, and collaborate cross-functionally to execute mitigation strategies to position inventory.</li>
<li>Partner closely with other teams and ensure that the right spare parts are physically in place at both current and future data center sites.</li>
</ul>
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 .

Program Manager III, Spares Planning, Data Center Equipment

Program Manager III, Spares Planning, Data Center Equipment

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