Technical Program Manager, Strategic Leasing
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in program management.
- 8 years of experience in data center critical infrastructure, including power distribution, cooling systems, and network topology.
- 5 years of experience in data center leasing, sale-leasebacks, or wholesale colocation transactions.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in program management or a technical client-facing role within the data center, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology sector.
- Experience managing multiple technical programs and stakeholders simultaneously during high-stakes commercial negotiations.
- Experience translating technical specifications into commercial language and managing technical contracts or exhibits in a commercial real estate or technology sales environment.
- Ability to travel within the Americas as needed to support key meetings and site visits.
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.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $183,000-$271,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical program management for the leasing team, serving as the primary liaison between the commercial brokers and the internal infrastructure engineering/operations teams.
- Translate technical requirements (e.g., power redundancy, cooling topology, fiber connectivity, security standards) into clear, concise, and accurate documentation for term sheets, proposals, and lease exhibits.
- Develop and manage a library of technical specifications and leasing standards to ensure consistency and speed in the leasing process across the portfolio.
- Coordinate the technical diligence process during negotiations, ensuring client-specific modifications or build-outs are accurately scoped, costed, and scheduled by the appropriate engineering and construction teams.
- Conduct analysis and modeling to assess the technical feasibility and commercial viability of non-standard lease requests and partnership opportunities.
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