Program Manager, Google Distributed Cloud

Google; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management, client services or management consulting.
• Experience delivering enterprise digital transformation projects to customers (e.g., cloud migrations or multi-cloud transformations across data warehousing and analytics, application development, or cybersecurity solutions).
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience working with a cross-functional, geographically dispersed team and customer base and collaborating with channel partners, systems integrators, and third-party developers to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Experience leveraging quantitative assessment and analysis for decision-making and prioritization.
• Understanding of the Cloud marketplace and the differentiators of various Cloud offerings.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud and IT technology space.

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google's global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

In this role, you will engage directly with customers and key Google partners to deliver, design, build, and advise customers on the best way to transition to Google Cloud. You will specialize in the program management, governance, and orchestration of cloud transformations, involving supporting customers and internal teams from pre-sales through delivery and execution of Google Cloud and customer transformation programs.

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

• Drive the program management of multi-functional, Google Cloud Professional Services projects, covering program planning, delivery assurance and verification, tracking and reporting, and risk and mitigation planning.
• Define the overall governance model for the account and establish a cadence to manage the ongoing delivery of the plan.
• Manage the risks, issues, and actions for the accounts and regularly track them to meet the expected outcomes and timelines, building mitigation plans as the program evolves.
• Influence stakeholders, drive the quality delivered by internal and external partner teams and project resources, and provide program leadership aligned to the program objectives.
• Take various project requirements and organize them into clear goals and objectives, and break down projects and processes into sub-projects and sub-processes that could be executed by other teams or partners.