Senior Technical Program Manager I, Resource Planning, Cloud Storage

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 Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

To deliver a reliable capacity planning experience for Cloud Flex customers that is efficient and scalable, while adhering to GCP financial guardrails. Core Responsibilities Planning and Forecasting creating 18-month resource forecasts (GCU, RAM, Disk) for organic growth and new launches. Ensuring supply meets demand while managing allocations and staying within financial limits. Managing resource distribution from pantries to the flex pool and coordinating with services like BigQuery and PD. Driving initiatives for a touchless capacity pipeline to reduce toil and improve efficiency.

The team ensures Cloud Flex provides the right resources at the right time. They collaborate closely with service owners, supply chain, and power planning teams to power GCP infrastructure cost-effectively. Responsible for overseeing Block Storage forecast, supply projection and machine order management to ensure sufficient capacity for Persistent Disk (PD) forecasted demand, including organic and customer-driven workloads. Own the bottoms-up forecasting process, collaborating with PD Engineering and product management to assess the impact of engineering changes on capacity plans.

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.