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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Public Policy, Business, Political Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program or project management.
• 8 years of experience in economic development in a corporate organization (e.g., tax, policy, legal, or real estate), law firm, accounting firm, consultancy, or government agency.
• Experience in project management, including managing budgets, resource allocation, and timelines.
• Experience in research methodologies, and developing and sharing recommendations from data sources (e.g., survey data, social intelligence, qualitative research, online telemetry, and business metrics).
• Experience in managing contractors, agencies, or other third parties.

Preferred qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate, MBA, or other relevant professional certification.
• 10 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience with any of the following: site selection for high-technology, industrial-scale projects; real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, construction and operation; utility contracts; energy-related issues and clean energy initiatives.
• Experience or familiarity with a range of economic development issues such as indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, contract drafting and redlining, and presentation development.
• Experience with economic development impact studies or economic development marketing.
• Experience with expanding markets and site election, in retail, logistics, manufacturing, or similar industry.

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.
As Global Lead, Economic Development, you combine your market and tech industry knowledge to support Google's infrastructure growth. You build and execute economic development strategies, work with industry peers, and present strategies to executive leadership. You advocate for Google and community ecosystems, bridging the gap between Google's technology capabilities and the real-world partners while identifying and addressing industry trends.
In this role, you will drive Google's economic development strategy for new and existing data centers sites and related AI infrastructure around the world. You will work closely with a network of internal stakeholders as well as strategic vendors to support the growth of Google's products and services, and to provide the infrastructure that will help expand the company's global reach.
You will lead business discussions with the key stakeholders. Your knowledge of economic development, compliance, ethics, relationship and coalition building, policy and regulation, and company goals will position you to be an advocate for development and management of the global infrastructure portfolio.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop markets, reduce overall total cost of ownership, and improve community and stakeholder engagement.
• Take a leading role in economic development partnerships, industry coalitions, legislative efforts, policy advancement, and mitigation of industry headwinds, to optimize local market operating environments.
• Develop data center messaging, in partnership with content and research teams, that effectively communicates the economic, social, and environmental benefits of Google's infrastructure investments to external stakeholders at all levels and across disciplines.
• Activate economic development partnership programs, identifying upstream and downstream stakeholder groups to support advocacy efforts, and catalytic economic impact and growth across our market portfolio.
• You will be responsible for further entrenching economic development best practices within an organization experiencing rapid growth, serving as a subject matter expert.

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