Acquisition Program Manager at Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience in program or project management.
• Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience with agreement negotiation, cost negotiations, cost analysis, and vendor management.
• Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience working in global networking project management or network infrastructure acquisition of dark fiber and bandwidth services.

Preferred qualifications:

• Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience in network asset negotiations and planning including dark fiber, bandwidth services, layer 3 interconnect, collocation and data centers.
• Experience in performing data-driven network availability and resiliency analysis.
• Ability to negotiate agreement with vendors, partners and suppliers.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.
• Excellent financial skills including network present value calculations, agreement structuring, and return on investment analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term relationships with key commercial partners including telecommunications companies, network carriers and colocation operators for the purposes of managing our strategies of asset acquisition, edge-network pen testing, and Cloud partnerships.
• Identify, evaluate and acquire metro and long haul dark fiber assets. Design and build a new infrastructure solution through joint projects or separately.
• Coordinate with global planning teams to develop strategic roadmaps that guide long-term asset acquisition strategies.
• Support local engineering programs as related to network infrastructure development