Community Development Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience leading negotiations or business development.
• 6 years of experience doing program or project management.
• Experience managing programs and processes across distributed systems.
• Experience organizing community engagement events with internal cross-functional teams and nonprofits.
• Experience with creating and implementing external communications plans, including crisis communication management, utilizing modern communication strategies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical related field.
• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience in building trust with local municipalities, non-profit decision makers, and community members.
• Experience in problem-solving across distributed, fast-paced, and constantly changing environments.
• Understanding of research methodologies, including experience in developing and sharing strategic recommendations from a broad range of data sources (e.g., survey data, social intelligence, qualitative research, online telemetry, business metrics).

About the job

As a Community Development Manager, you will combine your community engagement and industry knowledge to support Google's infrastructure growth. This role will support GDC's strategic community development 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 (KOFs)/stakeholders and government officials and engage with a portfolio of community leaders and nonprofit orgs in your region. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day execution of programmatic community development plans, working cross functionally with the Energy and Sustainability teams to drive global data center community impact with researching new in-market opportunities, and supporting accelerated delivery of new data center development projects. 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, strategic community engagement and the unique needs of underrepresented communities.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $165,000-$248,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower Community Managers in your subregion and develop strategies to expand community outreach in current and new data center markets.
• Develop communication tools and processes to educate local communities about the role and impact of our data centers, and create locally focused social impact investment plans that address community needs and are self-sustaining.
• Engage with local community groups such as municipal leaders and community based non-profits to adopt Google's community initiatives into their core focus.
• Collaborate across Google, including with Energy and Sustainability teams, to maximize data center community impact and coordinate activities with a wide range of internal stakeholders.
• Produce location-specific community development plans with qualitative and quantitative data collection, and turn that research data into actionable insights to understand and prioritize community needs.