Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead, Business Controls

Company: Google
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

info_outline X 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. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Addison, TX, USA . Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in mission critical programs (e.g., data centers), with a focus on design, delivery, scheduling, and estimating. 8 years of experience in program or project management. 8 years of experience validating technical inputs. 8 years of experience building demand-vs-deployment. Preferred qualifications: MBA or advanced degree in Strategy or Analytics, or a related field. 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects. Experience in finance, project controls, data center/hyperscale construction management. Experience in planning cash flow curve development with the ability to link physical progress (schedule/delivery) to financial forecasting and business controls. Ability to translate complex technical risks into clear, high-level optionality and strategic recommendations for executive leadership. 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 Capacity Intake and Strategy Lead within the Business Controls team, you will serve as the critical intake point between Demand Planning and execution teams within Google Data Centers. You will deeply understand the mechanics of design, delivery, schedule, and estimating and coordinate with internal organizational technical leads to provide rapid response to upstream partners. You will be responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end intake strategy for the Google Data Center execution teams. By integrating complex systems and analytics and effective coordination, you will analyze and provide risk-adjusted options that provide leadership and Capacity Planning teams with clear options and levers for rapid response. In this role, you will use your strong coordination skills, deep organizational reach and interrogate schedule, cost, and delivery impact ensuring that every scenario is technically sound, financially viable, and strategically aligned with the organization's long-term capacity goals. 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. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Orchestrate the strategic integration of capacity intake across Design, Delivery, Scheduling, and Estimating teams to ensure a unified approach to capacity response and resource allocation. Utilize deep domain knowledge in design and construction workflows to develop sophisticated demand-versus-deployment scenarios and evaluate the technical risks and benefits of various deployment options. Support the integration of data systems to automate analytics, providing real-time visibility into the capacity pipeline and organizational throughput, and lead the analysis of complex planning cash flow curves. Provide the Capacity Planning teams with actionable optionality through data-driven modeling, and develop strategic levers—such as project sequencing or resource shifts, to provide rapid-response solutions as needed.

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