Community Development Manager, Strategic Partnerships Office

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) 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.
As a Community Development Manager, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google’s infrastructure growth. You will support the strategic community development and workforce innovation goals by providing data-driven insights and programmatic engagement that are based on comm.You will also 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. The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Finland: €96000 - €98000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/).

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

- 5 years of experience in program or project management.

- 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 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 Finnish fluently in order to interact with local stakeholders.

- Lead global data center community development strategies, investments, and impact for Finland.

- Collaborate with 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 role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused investment plans that are self-sustaining.

- Build key relationships with internal stakeholders, including Acquisition and Development, Energy, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cloud Supply Chain and Operations, Marketing, Google, and local Google data center.

- 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.