Sourcing Manager, Custom Silicon
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, supply chain, business, or in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in managing system-on-chip products or advanced semiconductor manufacturing and supply chain.
- Experience in supplier management with system-on-chip testing.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience dealing with foundries, assembly, packaging, testing suppliers, and sub-suppliers, and with semiconductor development cycles, silicon bring-up methodology and production ramp.
- Experience in presenting, and communicating to an executive audience.
- Experience in project and program management.
- Experience working with testing tooling suppliers and testing equipment vendors, and knowledge of the Customer-Owned Tooling model and chip cost model.
- Experience working with teams of various technical backgrounds, and leading cross-functional deliverables, with the ability to connect, network, and collaborate with others in a large product organization.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
About the job
Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.
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.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute innovative solutions to complex product problems of moderate scope.
- Manage multiple vendors or suppliers. Keep key stakeholders informed on issues and resolution.
- Negotiate multiple types of contracts with vendors or suppliers within one domain.
- Manage multiple projects of high value and complexity. Develop and manage overall project plans and keep management informed.
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