Lead, Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Investments

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 a Lead for Advanced Silicon Sourcing and Strategic Investments, you will direct the forward-scanning commercial pillar of Google’s Silicon Sourcing Center of excellence. Your mandate is to secure Google’s 5-year silicon roadmap through strategic venture investments, complex IP acquisitions, and proactive supply chain de-risking. While you will partner closely with engineering on ecosystem pathfinding (such as early test vehicles), your primary focus is structuring the financial and commercial agreements Joint Development Agreements (JDAs), Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), and partnerships that buy technical certainty and guarantee future capacity for Google's AI infrastructure.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead commercial evaluation, due diligence, and structuring for golden component startups. Manage IP acquisitions and licensing to secure exclusive technical advantages before they reach the merchant market.
• Architect complex JDAs and co-investment models for disruptive technologies. Define commercial envelopes for high-risk Point of Contacts (PoCs), ensuring intellectual property and financial interests are protected during early-stage integration.
• Partner with technical teams to translate silicon data into commercial leverage. Establish formal financial readiness gates for multi-billion-dollar technology transitions.
• Map tier-n supply chains by modeling risks. Architect strategies to guarantee access to critical raw materials, advanced substrates, and specialized chemicals.
• Model TCO for 2030+ technologies and architect 5-year booking strategies for constrained manufacturing tools (e.g., High-NA EUV) to ensure ecosystem readiness.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in program management.
• 7 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
• Experience in corporate development, venture capital, M&A, sourcing, or commercial negotiations within the technology or semiconductor sector.
• Experience in structuring, partnering, and facilitating Joint Development Agreements (JDAs), Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), IP licensing, or corporate investments.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience managing complex, cross-functional relationships bridging corporate finance, legal, and advanced Research and Development (R&D) engineering teams.
• Experience evaluating distressed or strategic IP portfolios and executing exclusive licensing agreements in the hardware/silicon sector.
• Familiarity with semiconductor supply chains, foundry business models, and the commercial landscape of advanced packaging ecosystems (e.g., Outsourced Assembly and Test (OSATs)).
• Excellent financial modeling skills, with the ability to translate technical milestones (e.g., node maturity, yield curves) into Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and precise Return on Investment (ROI) metrics.