Public Affairs Manager, Regional Data Centers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 14 years of experience leading negotiations or business development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with public policy teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience developing and executing strategies to deliver exceptional solutions.
• Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, agreement drafting, presentation development, and data center real estate markets.
• Experience executing cross-functional projects.
• Ability to comfortably work in ambiguous, collaborative, and fast-paced environments.

About The Job

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating agreements, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting agreement recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business. 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. The Public Affairs team focuses on telling our story to decision-makers, opinion formers, and data center communities. We are focused on creating strategic, and scalable solutions that have authentic and universal impact. As the Public Affairs Manager, you will advise on how to shape our data center initiatives in a way that is aligned to state and local government priorities. You will lead the maximization of partner opportunities to partner with state and local institutions and tell the story of our data center commitment. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Manage confidential projects with awareness of value and timing, and actively contribute to development of overall project plans.
• Develop and implement metrics for mapping, tracking, and lead a broad range of portfolio management issues regarding site/infrastructure development.
• Manage our economic, sustainability, and social contributions to create connections between technology and modern life.
• Provide public policy through leadership, assist in building our workforce development pipeline, and build relationships within Google and externally by networking.
• Combine creativity and intellectual standards with the organization in order to manage projects across the UK.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.