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Technical Project Managers will plan, facilitate, and manage the deployment of new services purchased from third party suppliers and vendors worldwide. You will work closely with the technical negotiation team to understand the terms of new contracts and arrangements including delivery targets and technical requirements. Managers also work closely with internal project management teams to communicate target completion dates and ensure that all internal requirements are being met in a timely manner. You will also cooperate with external vendors to gather and enforce schedules for installation of services and ensure that all services are met with desired technical and service specifications. Program Managers are responsible for ensuring that services are delivered correctly and on schedule, and are responsible for facilitating communications between all relevant stakeholders both internal and external.
Responsibilities:
Manage the delivery of dark fiber, leased wavelengths, circuit adds/moves/changes/disconnects, colo space, power, cross-connects, inside plant fiber, amplifier/regen sites, and IP transit and peering connections from inception through delivery. Ensure facilities are delivered on schedule and meet specifications.
Assist upstream planning, design, and acquisition teams in developing infrastructure requirements, priorities, and delivery date expectations. Manage project scope changes.
Serve as primary vendor contact for these activities. Escalate up vendor management chains as necessary if delivery time lines are at risk.
Daily interactions with Vendors, Google engineers, technicians, project managers and senior management
Lead kickoff and regular project status meetings. Keep downstream teams at Google apprised of project and delivery status. Manage exceptions and communicate issues and risks to the rest of the organization. Facilitate review and acceptance of vendor handover documentation. |
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Bachelors (BS degree in a technical discipline)
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7 years + |
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English : Speak / Write Fluently
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EU National |
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London |
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BS degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience in a telecom-related field.
Extensive technology-related project management experience, having worked in Carrier Relations / Vendor Management a plus.
Deep understanding of interconnectivity requirements within carrier hotels including LOA/CFA, physical interfaces, cable types, connector types and riser details.
Good understanding of Layer 1 through Layer 3 network services and technologies, including dark fiber, DWDM, SONET/SDH, Ethernet, and IP.
Knowledge of components that go into building a large ISP network, like optical muxes, internet routers.
Demonstrated organizational, project tracking, and communications skills.
Experience working with both US and international telecom vendors; fluency in one or more languages other than English a strong plus. |
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Search is how Google began, and it's at the heart of what we do today. We devote more engineering time to search than to any other product at Google, because we believe that search can always be improved. As a business, Google generates the majority of its revenue by offering advertisers measurable, cost-effective and highly relevant advertising, so that the ads are useful to the people who see them as well as to the advertisers who run them. |
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Google
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