Program Manager III, Capacity Planning, Google Cloud

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years
• Sick time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) plus 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short‑Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28‑30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• 13 paid holidays per year

Preferred working locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in program or project management
• Experience in supply or demand planning within supply chain management (e.g., forecasting, supplier management, inventory management, capacity management)
• Experience working with supply chain analytics (e.g., scripting, dashboards, forecasting)

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross‑functional or cross‑team projects
• Experience with data‑center hardware technology and data‑center capacity planning and budgeting
• Experience with change‑management success across capacity planning, resource management and delivery, new product introduction, supply chain management, or infrastructure deployment
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills

About the role

Google Cloud Platform is rapidly expanding its global footprint and product offerings. Capacity at the right place, at the right time, in the right form is essential to meet customer needs, enable GCP business growth, and run the business efficiently. As a Program Manager you will leverage technical and business depth, organizational, communication, and people‑management skills to collaborate with stakeholders across sales, customer engineering, professional services, product, and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead the coordination of capacity planning activities for Google Cloud AI/ML product portfolios
• Analyze customer usage patterns and lead consensus demand‑planning processes with account teams to build long‑term demand forecasts
• Identify and mitigate potential capacity bottlenecks through proactive monitoring, demonstrating operational excellence to minimize downtime and service disruptions for strategic customers
• Lead regular capacity review meetings with stakeholders to communicate performance metrics, discuss future requirements, and align business objectives with technical capabilities
• Design and implement tooling and automation in partnership with Google Cloud engineering teams to deliver operational excellence and reduce manual toil

Pay

US: $159,000 – $230,000 (USD) plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.