Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnership Office

Google's Infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As our products and services scale globally, we work behind the scenes to secure infrastructure to build Google's future. The Strategic Partnership Office (SPO) operates at the intersection of industrial innovation, external affairs, and civic impact, bridging Google’s technology capabilities with real-world partners. Within SPO, 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 business operating needs, ensuring growth and resilience through place-based strategies. We provide hyperlocal civic impact, community sustainability, and external engagement strategies, programs, and tools to expand economic, community, and workforce development outcomes.

The Community Development and Engagement (CDE) team drives business value by accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery and growth, protecting Google’s license to operate globally, and leveraging community partnerships and innovative expertise to deliver impactful solutions.

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. This role supports SPO’s strategic goals by providing data-driven insights and executing programmatic engagement based on community assessments across existing and prospective data center markets. You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive measurable social impact, cultivate relationships with Key Opinion Formers (KOFs), government officials, and community leaders, and research new in-market opportunities. Additionally, you will help entrench community development best practices across a rapidly growing organization, serving as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Formers (KOFs), municipal leaders, industry partners, and non-profits to ensure initiatives align with both community needs and business objectives.
• 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 based on research data turned into actionable insights to prioritize community needs.
• Develop communication tools to educate local communities on data center impact and implement localized, self-sustaining investment plans and workforce innovation goals.
• 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 Organization, and Local Google Data Center teams.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
  
• 5 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Experience working with local municipalities, associations, key opinion formers, non-profit decision makers, education institutions, and community members.
  
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  
• Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing or capital intensive industries.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.
  
• Experience managing a team of managers.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.