Job Description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with data centers operations or data center security.
• Experience with storage media.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience writing technical business requirements documents and partnering with software/automation engineering teams to enforce process compliance.
• Experience with hardware decommissioning, reverse logistics, NPI launch, hardware manufacturing, supply chain operations, material management, or technical operations.
• Familiarity with global standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and NIST 800-53/88.
• Knowledge of physical security systems and their intersection with logical security, specifically the birth-to-death Chain of Custody for storage media (HDD/SSD/flash/tape shredding, crushing, and cryptographic/logical sanitization), encryption, and hardware asset tracking.

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.

Google's Data Centers are the foundation of our global operations. We are seeking a experienced Technical Program Manager to lead transformative media security initiatives across our data center fleet modernizing and optimizing our media handling operations while keeping data safe. This role requires a technical background, program management expertise, and ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our security posture, ensure compliance, and manage risk. You will be responsible for large-scale, complex programs that have a direct impact on the security, resilience, and efficiency of Google's data centers.

Our team helps maintain user trust by keeping their data safe. We protect against unauthorized access and prevent loss of assets that may contain intellectual property or our customers' sensitive data across our global data center fleet.

We accomplish this through developing policies, guidelines, processes, and tools that help ensure we meet Google’s data security commitments. Engineering operational issues away to reduce time, touches, and cost. Engineering & business enablement through data security audit management and monitoring of process compliance.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead transformative initiatives to modernize, optimize, and scale media handling and lifecycle operations across our global data center fleet while keeping Google's and our customers data safe.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering, hardware, supply chain, logistics, and operations teams to re-imagine legacy workflows, engineer operational issues away, and uphold strict media chain-of-custody controls.
• Drive end-to-end technical program execution from defining requirements, policies, and process standards to global deployment, risk management, and continuous compliance monitoring.