About the job

The Community Development and Engagement team (CDE) drives business value by accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery and growth, protecting Google’s license to operate in markets around the world, and leveraging community partnerships and innovative expertise to deliver solutions for community development and engagement.

As a Senior Community Development Manager, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. This role will support GDC’s strategic community development goals by providing data-driven insights and programmatic engagement that are based on community assessments for existing and prospective data center markets. You will partner with cross-functional teams to drive measurable social impact, develop and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Formers (KOFs)/stakeholders and government officials. You'll engage with a portfolio of community leaders, associations, and nonprofit organizations in your region. This role is responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of programmatic community development plans, working cross-functionally to drive global data center community impact with researching new in-market opportunities, and supporting accelerated delivery of new data center development projects. You will be responsible for further entrenching community development best practices within an organization experiencing rapid growth, serving as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement and development.
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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• 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 accelerating business objectives.

• 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 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. Localize and implement community development initiatives in each community.

• Build and maintain key internal relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 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.

• Ability to travel around 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 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 or capital intensive industries.