APAC Lead, AI and Infrastructure Strategic Initiatives (Mandarin, English)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Semiconductor Physics, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in business development, semiconductor and EMS supply chain management, or technology partnerships.
- Experience working with C-level executives and managing multi-stakeholder initiatives in the technology or supply chain domain.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in technical and commercial AI infrastructure and supply chain ecosystems.
- Ability to architect and deploy large-scale hardware/AI infrastructure initiatives (e.g., custom ASIC/TPU deployment, data center compute scaling, sovereign cloud infrastructure).
- Ability to influence internal and external senior executives stakeholders across complex, highly matrixed organizations.
- Excellent business judgment, analytical excellence skills, and capacity to structure novel partnerships under ambiguous or rapidly shifting market conditions.
About the job
Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.
Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.
The AI and Infrastructure (AI2) Strategy and Operations team drives operational excellence, executive enablement, and strategic alignment across AI and 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.
Responsibilities
- Formulate and execute holistic APAC AI infrastructure and supply chain strategies in direct alignment with the AI2 executive leadership team.
- Drive executive-level engagements with senior leaders at major semiconductor foundries, memory and key components vendors, and other supply chain partners across APAC to secure long-term ecosystem commitments.
- Form the strategy and lead the regional rollout for TPU APAC expansion, including TPU neoclouds, sovereign AIs, first-party data center expansions, and project bloom execution.
- Direct cross-functional alignment across AI2 hardware engineering, systems architecture, global supply chain, and deployment teams to synchronize demand signals with strategic commitments.
- Evaluate global macro industry trends, geopolitical dynamics, and AI compute shifts to mitigate single-point-of-failure supply risks and unlock transformational capacity opportunities. Mentor and lead cross-functional working groups across APAC to align regional execution with AI2 long-term technology roadmaps.
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