Npi Operations Program Manager, Google Cloud

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote roles.**Remote location: Mexico.****Minimum qualifications**:- Bachelor's degree with a technical emphasis or other technical field or equivalent practical experience.- 2 years of experience in program or project management.- Experience in driving, building, and qualifying New Product Introduction (NPI) process stages with engineering teams.Experience working in hardware or contract manufacturing for supply chain operations.- **Preferred qualifications**:- 5 years of experience in managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.- Experience with Rack, Server, Advanced Cooling solution development, data center networking or optical engineering.- Experience with Supply/Demand Planning and Accounting/Finance.- Experience working with hardware programs (e.g., PCBA) or networking products (e.g., NICs, switches, optics, racks).- Ability to lead operational and strategic initiatives.**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 Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.As a New Product Introduction (NPI) Operations Program Manager, you will be the primary Operations/Supply Chain interface to the development and deployment teams with the responsibility for driving operations new product development as well as supporting those products through production ramp. You will lead a team of professionals to ensure products are designed and built to Google standards.This role requires on-site presence at the contractor manufacturer in Guadalajara three days per week.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.**Responsibilities**:- Lead large, complex, cross-functional Program teams within Google and with external partners to prepare for production ramp or product transitions.- Plan and execute operations development activities and ensure transition to production within cost, quality and capacity parameters. Ensure successful production transitions meeting program goals.- Manage ramp readiness with internal teams as well as external partners (i.e., material availability, cost/assembly/test/BOM/capacity readiness and transition plans).- Drive cross-functional teams to optimize the supply chain for specific strategic reasons, while accounting for risks, changes in schedule or demand.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.