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Posted 11 June, 2026
Google

Data Center NPI Technical Program Manager

Google
Taipei Taiwan Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in program management.
  • Experience with technical hardware design or system design.
  • Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) and Product Life Cycle (PLC).

Preferred qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience with process or workflow definition and development in a data center environment.
  • Experience leading projects or programs related to system deployment, maintenance, or decommissioning.
  • Understanding of the overall systems integration process, with the ability to put comprehensive workflows in place.
  • Ability to effectively work with and communicate with all levels of management and individual contributors on the team.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Data Center (DC) NPI Technical Program Manager team integrates safe, secure, and serviceable hardware into Google Data Centers to organize the world's data. We bridge the gap between engineering and operations managing complex lifecycles, engineering efficient workflows, and leading cross-functional teams to deploy dynamically designed, high-performance cloud systems at scale while reducing operational time and cost.

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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex, ambiguous New Product Introduction (NPI) hardware programs from concept to production. Develops integrated schedules, manages milestones, and ensures on-time capacity delivery.
  • Author comprehensive Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), mapping sequential data center-centric workflows and establishing strict scope control to seamlessly transition requirements into Product Requirements Documents (PRDs)/Technical Design Document (TDDs).
  • Orchestrate collaboration across hardware/software engineering, Google server operations, data center operations, and supply chain. Drives alignment, navigates technical trade-offs, and manages stakeholder communications.
  • Define DC serviceability and maintainability requirements. Oversee pilot deployments, apply technical judgment to mitigate engineering/operational risks, and drive root-cause issue resolution.
  • Translate vague requirements into actionable goals, implementing NPI framework enhancements to boost operational efficiency and reduce toil.
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