Community Development Manager, Google Data Centers

Community Development Manager, Google Data Centers

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As the products and services scale the globe, we work behind the scenes to secure infrastructure to secure Google's future.

In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and mitigating economic, community, and labor risks to deliver an optimized inventory of assets meeting the operating needs of the business, and to ensure and maintain the license to operate in the markets. You will provide the strategy, programs, structure, and tool sets on economic, community and workforce development issues for the regional site selection, negotiation, construction, operations, and execution teams to consistently make high-quality decisions at scale, faster, and with less risk to meet the needs of Google's business while protecting the license to operate and effectively engaging in the data center markets.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience working with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
• Experience building place-based development strategies, and executing against those plans with measurable local impacts and business outcomes.
• Experience synthesizing data and research findings into recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing.
• Ability to grow in a fluid multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as needed, across multi-market data center portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impacts for Thailand.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups such as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs and accelerate business objectives.
• Collaborate with team leaders and peers to develop strategies to scale sub regional community affairs coverage, focus on place-based frameworks and partnerships to produce location-specific development plans based on research data turned into actionable insights
• Develop tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of the data centers, and create investment plans that are self-sustaining.
• Build and maintain key internal relationships including acquisition and development, energy, government affairs and public policy, cloud supply chain and operations, marketing, Google organization, and local Google data center teams.