Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnership Office

Google LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google LLC in Arkansas is seeking a Community Development Manager within the Strategic Partnership Office to lead community engagement and drive infrastructure growth. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, plan requirements, manage schedules, identify risks, and communicate progress across offices and time zones.

The role focuses on data-driven insights, leveraging community partnerships to deliver impactful solutions and expand economic and workforce development outcomes globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Experience with local municipalities, associations, KOFs, non-profits, education institutions, and community members.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with KOFs, municipal leaders and partners to align initiatives with community needs and business objectives.
• Collaborate with team leaders to develop strategies to scale sub-regional community affairs coverage in emerging markets.
• Develop communication tools to educate local communities on data center impact and investment plans.
• Establish internal relationships across Acquisition and Development, Energy, Government Affairs, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations, Marketing, and local Data Center teams.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Analytics

Stakeholder management

Public-private partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or Master’s degree

Job description

Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnership Office

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Remote location: Arkansas, USA.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in a leadership role.
• 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.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in one or more of the following: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing or capital intensive industries.
• Experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.
• Experience managing a team of managers.
• Experience using analytics to make decisions.

About the job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The Strategic Partnership Office (SPO) bridges Google’s technology capabilities with real-world partners to expand economic, community, and workforce development outcomes.

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will drive business value by accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery, protecting Google’s license to operate globally, and leveraging community partnerships to deliver impactful solutions.

In this role, you will provide data-driven insights and execute 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 serve as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement, entrenching best practices across a rapidly growing organization.

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.

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

About the job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

The Strategic Partnership Office (SPO) bridges Google’s technology capabilities with real-world partners to expand economic, community, and workforce development outcomes.

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will drive business value by accelerating new technical infrastructure delivery, protecting Google’s license to operate globally, and leveraging community partnerships to deliver impactful solutions.

In this role, you will provide data-driven insights and execute 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 serve as a subject matter expert on data center delivery and strategic community engagement, entrenching best practices across a rapidly growing organization.

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.

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

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Formers (KOFs), municipal leaders, industry partners, and non-profits to ensure initiatives align with both community needs and 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 development plans based on research data turned into actionable insights to prioritize community needs.
• Develop communication tools to educate local communities on data center impact and implement localized, self-sustaining investment plans and workforce innovation goals.
• Build and maintain key internal relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders, including Acquisition and Development, Energy, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations, Marketing, Google Organization, and local Google Data Center teams.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

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