Technical Program Manager III, Submarine Cable Deployment, Cloud Networking

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Manufacturing

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Technical Program Manager III at Google's Global Submarine Networks (GSN) team, you'll lead fiber-optic submarine cable construction projects. You will manage cross-functional teams (internal and external stakeholders, vendors) throughout project execution, overseeing aspects like cable routes, landing points, marine installation, and permit acquisition. Responsibilities include reviewing engineering decisions, collaborating with vendors on deliverables, quality, budget, and schedule, and ensuring readiness of supporting infrastructure. You'll leverage expertise in vendor management, marine survey, and telecommunications best practices to drive project completion. Strong communication in English, Portuguese, and Spanish is crucial.
Must have:
  • 5+ years program management experience
  • Submarine cable experience (deployment, installation)
  • English, Portuguese, Spanish fluency
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Vendor management expertise
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in relevant engineering field
  • International project team experience
  • Technical understanding of marine route engineering, environmental permitting, marine construction, etc.
  • Strong organizational and multitasking abilities

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in program management.
  • Experience with submarine cables (deployment, installation, testing, or equipment handling).
  • Ability to communicate in English, Portuguese and Spanish to facilitate client conversations.
  • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in electrical, electronic or mechanical engineering, mathematics, physics, environmental science or oceanography.
  • 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  • Experience working with international project teams and collaborating remotely with teammates.
  • Technical understanding in multiple areas relevant to submarine cable deployment, such as marine route engineering, environmental permitting, marine construction, civil engineering, manufacturing processes and quality assurance.
  • Adeptness in situations of ambiguity, with strong organizational, multitasking and prioritization abilities.

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.

The Global Submarine Networks (GSN) team plans, builds and operates the subsea backbone network used by Google to provide our products and services. This international team collaborates with internal stakeholders and an array of suppliers to create construction agreements, oversee the delivery of each cable system, then operate and maintain that infrastructure for high reliability and security.

The Cable Build team is a specialized group within GSN responsible for cable system construction. This team blends skills from marine construction, fiber-optic networking, project management and contract negotiation to deliver this core infrastructure. In this role, you will own fiber-optic submarine cable construction projects. You will lead work between submarine cable vendors, partners, and internal teams through close collaboration with other Technical Program Managers, Strategic Negotiators, Network Deployment Engineers, Product Managers and Network Architects. You will use your understanding of the Google Network and your expertise in vendor management, marine survey, marine installation, manufacturing, permitting, optical transport, outside plant, and telecommunications industry best-practices to lead cross-functional teams in driving the genesis and completion of submarine cable projects.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross functional teams of internal and external stakeholders throughout project execution.
  • Review and validate engineering decisions for cable routes and protection, landing point selections, shore-end solutions and marine installation methods.
  • Collaborate with vendors on permit acquisition strategies. Monitor permit application processes and risks. Develop mitigations and assess schedule impacts.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the readiness of cable landing stations, fronthaul, backhaul and beach infrastructure to support cable installation.
  • Manage vendor performance for contracted deliverables, quality, budget and schedule.

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