EMEA/APAC Director, Economic Community and Workforce

Google LLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an experienced Director, Economic Community and Workforce Development to shape Google's data center ecosystem across Europe. You will build and execute economic development strategies, drive infrastructure labor, and oversee workforce development programs in collaboration with industry peers and executive leadership.

You will advocate for Google and the data center industry, align policy and regulatory efforts with company goals, and lead a global community engagement team to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 15 years of economic development experience in a corporate, government, or consulting setting.
• Experience managing people and building partnerships.
• Ability to fluently communicate in three regional languages.

Responsibilities

• Unlock new markets and improve community engagement.
• Lead industry coalitions, policy advancement, and messaging planning.
• Diplomatically engage communities and local stakeholders across regions.
• Develop strategies to build productive communities in diverse environments.
• Grow and manage a global community engagement team for workforce development.

Skills

15 years of economic development

People management

Business partnerships

Multilingual communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Public Policy, Business, Political Science, or Economics or equivalent practical experience.

Job description

EMEA/APAC Director, Economic Community and Workforce

Google – London, UK; Dublin, Ireland; Amsterdam, Netherlands

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: London, UK; Dublin, Ireland; Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Public Policy, Business, Political Science, or Economics or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of economic development experience within a corporate organization (e.g., tax, policy, legal, real estate, etc.), law firm, accounting firm, consultancy, or government agency.
• Experience in people management.
• Experience developing business to business partnerships.
• Ability to communicate in 3 languages prevalent in the region (e.g., Dutch, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian) fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications

• JD, MBA, or other relevant professional certification.
• Experience with any of the following: industrial-scale projects, or real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, and construction, or utility contracts, or energy-related issues and clean energy initiatives.
• Experience with economic development impact studies or economic development marketing.
• Government affairs and public policy experience.
• Experience or familiarity with a range of economic development issues such as indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, contract drafting and redlining, and presentation development.
• Ability to work cross-functionally while coming up with commercially and technically creative solutions.

About the job

As Director, Economic Community and Workforce Development (WFD), you will combine your market and tech industry knowledge to support Google's infrastructure growth. You will build and execute economic development strategies, drive infrastructure labor, and workforce development programs, work with industry peers, and present strategies to executive leadership. You will advocate for Google and the data center industry, while identifying and addressing industry trends.

In this role, you will primarily lead the development of the company's global economic development program for data centers. You will work closely with a network of internal stakeholders as well as strategic vendors to support the growth of Google's products and services, and to provide the infrastructure that will help expand the company's global reach. You will lead business discussions with the key stakeholders. Your knowledge of economic development, compliance, relationship and coalition building, policy and regulation, and company goals will position you to be an advocate for development and management of the global data center portfolio.

Additionally, you will embed community and workforce development best practices within a rapidly expanding organization, serving as a subject matter expert on WFD delivery, strategic community engagement, and labor market opportunities for data center communities. You will identify future talent resource needs and collaborate with local and regional organizations to bridge skills gaps, creating a sustainable workforce pipeline for the data center ecosystem. You will collaborate with education and training organizations to establish talent pathways, ensuring data center communities benefit from the digital economy.

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. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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

Ireland: - (EUR) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Unlock new markets, reduce overall total cost of ownership, and improve community and stakeholder engagement.
• Support the development of content to broaden and amplify our messaging and planning around the data center lifecycle, and take a leading role in industry coalitions, legislative efforts, policy advancement, and mitigation of industry headwinds.
• Practice retail data center diplomacy, community by community, listening sessions, meeting with local leads or grassroots organizers.
• Uncouple agitation from core grievance and create strategies that build community in both productive and challenging environments.
• Grow, develop, and manage a global community engagement team that includes Public Affairs, Workforce Development to drive in-market sentiment and optimize local market operating environments.

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