Head of Energy Portfolio Planning

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Skills, Cross-Functional, Economics, Energy Management, Engineering, Engineering Management, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Finance, Investment Management, Leadership, Product Development, Product Engineering, Project Engineering, Project Lifecycle, Project Schedule, Project/Program Management, Risk Analysis, Schedule Development, Strategic Planning, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Energy Systems, Finance, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with direct reports.
  • Experience in energy portfolio management, energy system planning, or infrastructure strategy.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
  • Experience leading large-scale, complex technical programs from strategic design through to execution in high-growth environments.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As the Technical Program Manager for Energy Portfolio Planning, you will lead the long-term strategic design of our energy and power portfolio to align with business goals of scale, cost-efficiency, and reliability. In this capacity, you will serve as the bridge across Energy and Power, and internal partner teams to develop and integrate multi-faceted portfolio design, ensuring that advanced technical solutions and long-term portfolio design solutions are integrated into planning workstreams and implemented across the broader portfolio. You will work at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and energy strategy to drive flexibility and efficiency into how our compute resources interact with the power grid, better enabling our infrastructure to scale alongside AI growth while meeting carbon-free energy goals. By leading complex program management and internal stakeholder engagement, you will ensure our energy portfolio is not only robust enough for today’s demands but also dynamic enough to support the next decade of innovation.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the energy portfolio design function, integrating frontier technical solutions and long-term strategies to achieve goals across scale, cost-efficiency, reliability, and carbon-free energy.
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to define optimal system designs for power grids, including the development of market frameworks, technology roadmaps, and infrastructure strategy.
  • Design and implement future energy operating frameworks and portfolio outlooks specifically tailored to support the rapid scaling of AI-driven compute resources.
  • Collaborate with supply strategy and asset planning teams to identify and integrate critical inputs that define the long-term strategic direction of the global portfolio.
  • Evaluate and overhaul existing energy management methodologies to implement structural changes that improve overall scalability and cost-efficiency.
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.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V