Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Office

Google; Horndal; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

20% bonus target

Job summary

Google Sweden seeks a Community Development Manager to advance data center community engagement and workforce development. You will guide cross-functional teams, analyze community needs, and drive partnerships with government and non-profits to support responsible expansion.

You will shape data-driven programs, maintain relationships with stakeholders, and ensure community benefits align with Google’s growth objectives, equity goals, and local regulations.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for Sweden.
• 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.
• 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 programs.
• 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.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs.

Skills

Analytics experience

Public-private partnerships

Multinational collaboration

English and Swedish fluency

Education

MBA or Master’s degree in Education/Public Relations/Policy

Job description

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

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience working with local municipalities, associations, non-profit leaders, 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, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.
• Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.
• Ability to grow in a fluid multinational environment working across multiple lines of business.
• Ability to communicate in English and Swedish fluently to support the client management in this market.

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 Community Development Manager based in Sweden, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. This role will support Strategic Partnerships Office's (SPO's) strategic community development and workforce innovation 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 and engage with a portfolio of community leaders, associations, and nonprofit organizations in your region. This IC role is responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of programmatic community development plans, working cross functionally to drive data center community impact with researching new in-market opportunities, and supporting accelerated delivery of new data center development projects aligned with management goals. 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 workforce development.

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

Sweden: kr1200000 - kr1230000 (SEK) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for Sweden.
• 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.
• 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 programs.
• 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.
• Engage with key opinion formers, community groups as municipal leaders, industry partners, economic development organizations, schools, education institutions, and non-profits to ensure initiatives are centered around community needs.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .