Job Description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program or project management.
• 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 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.

About the job

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. This role will support the 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 /stakeholders and government officials and engage with a portfolio of community leaders, associations, and nonprofit organizations in your region. You will be 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.

Finland: €120000 - €123000 (EUR) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• 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.org, 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.