Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Office

Google; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target 15%

Job summary

Google is seeking a Program Manager to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish, coordinating with stakeholders to plan requirements and manage schedules. You will work with cross-functional teams across offices and time zones to deliver initiatives and communicate progress effectively.

The role focuses on expanding public-private partnerships, community outreach, and strategic infrastructure programs, with an emphasis on scalable impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in one or more of the following fields: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing, or capital intensive industries.
• 5 years of experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to plan requirements and manage project schedules.
• Identify risks and communicate progress to cross-functional partners.
• Coordinate teams across offices, time zones, and hemispheres to deliver initiatives.
• Develop strategies to scale community and infrastructure partnerships.
• Build relationships with municipal officials and industry partners to advance objectives.

Skills

Program management experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Public-private partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in one or more of the following fields: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing, or capital intensive industries.
• 5 years of experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• 5 years of experience in one or more of the following fields: data centers, utilities, government, advanced manufacturing, or capital intensive industries.
• 5 years of experience developing and launching local, state, national or global public-private partnerships.

Preferred qualifications

• MBA or Master’s degree in Education, Public Relations/Policy or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

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 Public Affairs and Civic Outreach team drives corporate value by expediting technical infrastructure rollout, safeguarding license to operate globally, and leveraging alliances and innovative expertise to deliver impact solutions.

In this role, you will advance expansion goals by providing investigative evaluations and structured programming grounded in site assessments across existing and prospective facility territories. You will collaborate with cross-functional squads to generate measurable social outcomes, cultivate ties with municipal officials, and interface with an active portfolio of organizers, industry associations, and charitable institutions. You will also embed civic standards across an enterprise experiencing rapid growth, serving as a dedicated authority on technical site delivery, outreach, and long-term progress.

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: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• 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.
• 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 investment plans that are self-sustaining.
• Localize and implement community development initiatives in each community.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, including acquisition and development, energy, government affairs and public policy, cloud supply chain and operations, marketing, and local Google data center teams.

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 .