Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, Devices and Services

Google India; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google India is seeking a Strategic Partner Manager to lead end-to-end account management with telecom partners and mobile dealers. The role focuses on building and expanding partnerships, defining strategic blueprints, and driving growth across the telecom and mobile dealer networks.

You will oversee supply, negotiate commercial agreements, and launch GTM initiatives while collaborating with Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Strategy Operations to meet revenue goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, or account management.
• Experience in hardware, product sales management.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end account management for telecommunication partners and mobile dealers.
• Act as primary relationship lead for telecom partners and dealers, including escalation for tests.
• Own the full partnership lifecycle: supply, negotiating commercial agreements, GTM launches, scaling initiatives.
• Coordinate with internal Product, Marketing, Engineering, Supply Chain and Finance teams for seamless execution.
• Collaborate with Android and YouTube teams and global stakeholders to design partnerships proposals.

Skills

Business development

Account management

Partnerships

Sales management

Hardware experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, or account management.
• Experience in hardware, product sales management.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in business development, partnerships, or account management with a strong focus on the Telecom industry.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships with mobile dealers, telecommunication companies.
• Experience working collaboratively with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all management levels within the telecom sector.
• Proven experience managing commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, go-to-market (GTM) plans, negotiating pricing and subsidy models.

About the job

Google's line of products and services to clients never stops growing. Strategic Partner Managers have the rare opportunity to build a long-lasting relationship with our top partners. You cultivate these existing partnerships to make sure they can take full advantage of Google's ever-growing suite of offerings. You possess strong relationship-building skills and are apt to see mutually beneficial opportunities with partners in order to best represent our users, products and programs.

In this role, you will lead the end-to-end account management explicitly defining the strategic blueprint for our telecommunication partners and mobile dealers. You will be focusing on driving growth across the telecommunication and mobile dealer networks. You will be responsible for developing channel partnership strategies and executing plans to meet our sales and revenue goals. You will help shape the Pixel Device strategy to build market share in telecommunication and mobile dealers. You will work closely with Marketing, Product, Engineering, Supply Planning, Legal and Strategy Operations teams. The Hardware Partnerships team was formed with the purpose of bringing the best of Google’s software and hardware to our users by bringing to market and distributing a Google-branded hardware portfolio. The team is responsible for managing all partnerships with carriers, retailers and resellers worldwide. This includes the partnerships for products such as Pixel , Google Wifi , Google Nest Thermostat , Chromecast Ultra and Google Home .

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end account management explicitly defines the strategic blueprint for our telecommunication partners and mobile dealers.
• Act as the primary relationship lead for our telecommunication partners and mobile dealers, also act as the main escalation point for critical partner or product tests.
• Own the full partnership lifecycle with head office to mobile dealers like managing supply, negotiating commercial agreements, Go-To-Market (GTM) launching initiatives, and scaling them to meet the business objectives.
• Serve as the pivotal link to ensure telecommunication accounts internal Product, Technical, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams like Android and YouTube, working alongside global stakeholders to design integrated, powerhouse proposals that win over Southeast Asia (SEA) telecom providers and retail dealers.

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.