Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Office (Telugu)

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 our products and services scale the globe, we work behind the scenes to secure infrastructure to build Google's future. The Strategic Partnership Office is the organization that operates at the intersection of industrial innovation, external affairs, and civic impact, creating bridges between Google’s technology capabilities and the real-world partners that extend our reach and mission.

As part of the SPO (Strategic Partnership Office), the Economic and Community Development team is a vertically integrated organization 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 economic growth and resilience leveraging place-based strategies our markets. We provide the hyperlocal civic impact, community sustainability, and external engagement strategy, programs, structure, and tools to expand economic, community and workforce development outcomes for our communities.

Responsibilities

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact.
• 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.
• Collaborate with team leaders and peers to develop strategies to scale sub regional community affairs coverage in emerging markets, focusing on place-based frameworks and partnerships to produce location-specific development plans.
• Develop communication tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused investment plans that are self-sustaining. 
• Build and maintain key internal relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders, including Acquisition and Development, Energy, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations, Marketing, Google, and local Google Data Center teams.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience organizing community engagement events with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
• Experience creating and implementing external communications plans and strategies, including crisis communication management.
• Experience managing programs and processes across distributed systems and managing contractors, agencies, or other third parties.
• Ability to communicate in Telugu fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

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