Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnership Office

Google; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 154,000 - 157,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google seeks a Community Development Manager to drive outcomes across Netherlands data center initiatives and community partnerships. The role combines community engagement with industry knowledge to support infrastructure growth and measurable social impact.

You will partner with cross-functional teams, leverage data-driven insights, and build relationships with government officials, KOFs, and community leaders to prioritize local needs and opportunities.

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.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as required.
• MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field (preferred).
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for the Netherlands.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups and economic development partners.
• Scale sub-regional coverage with place-based frameworks and partnerships.
• Develop tools to educate local communities about data center roles and impacts.
• Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders across multiple teams.

Skills

Travel 25%

Stakeholder management

Program management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

MBA or Master’s degree (preferred)

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Eemshaven, Netherlands

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Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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.
• 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.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• 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.
• Ability to grow in a fluid multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
• Ability to communicate in English and Dutch fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

About the job

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. You will support 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.

Netherlands: €154000 - €157000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for the Netherlands.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups such as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits.
• 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 and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused self-sustaining investment plans.
• Build and maintain key internal relationships with a 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.

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