Program Manager III – Life Cycle Assessment – Cloud Sustainability

Program Manager III – Life Cycle Assessment – Cloud Sustainability

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software tools and databases (SimaPro, GaBi, Sphera, Open LCA, LCA for Experts, ecoinvent, etc.).
• Experience working with electronics manufacturing, data center hardware equipment, or data center operations.

Responsibilities

• Build-out process-level life cycle models and inventories to account for environmental impacts of legacy equipment, new product introductions and future looking technologies.
• Grow our repository of customized life cycle inventories through collaboration with in- and external stakeholders, including our suppliers, product design and manufacturing engineering.
• Uncover environmental hotspots in our data center hardware’s life cycle from production, deployment, maintenance, and circular system, parts and material reuse, to identify mitigation strategies.
• Share progress updates with stakeholders, including multi-disciplinary, technical and non-technical audiences and work with other sustainability teams across Google on strategies, methods and joint programs to reach NetZero.
• Lead joint industry initiatives on standardization of accounting methods, reporting, and accelerating the shift toward a low-carbon economy.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience working in electronics hardware design, manufacturing, data center environments, or supply chain.
• Experience in implementing initiatives on carbon-aware design, circularity, or sustainable manufacturing and operations.
• Experience with carbon accounting standards.
• Ability to work with stakeholders from different time zones such as PST/CST and EMEA/APAC working hours as needed.