Minimum qualifications: + Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Finance, Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. + 6 years of experience with any of the following, real estate acquisition, development, and construction; partnering or managing utility agreements; energy-related issues , implementation of clean energy initiatives, financial modeling, collocation business agreements. + Experience in discussing or supporting the agreement of bilateral real estate agreements, managing projects of varying sizes, timelines, and scale. + Ability to travel up to 50% of the time as required. Preferred qualifications: + Experience with sourcing and acquiring third-party colocation and built to suits. + Experience with a range of issues such as indirect taxes, economic development policy, financial modeling, infrastructure development, agreements drafting and redlining, and presentation development. + Experience working within, and occasionally leading, cross-functional strategic efforts. + Familiarity with power transmission and distribution, telecommunications infrastructure, data center technology, industrial class electrical and cooling technology, or other related areas of technical skills. + Ability to navigate ambiguity, frequently adjusting priorities and making quick decisions to keep projects moving efficiently. As Google's products and services grow to serve our billions of users, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future. It's a big job that involves everything from operating underwater cables to finding data center space. In this role you combine your deep market knowledge with tech industry savvy to find solutions that support Google's growth. You'll work with specific teams to oversee vendor and partner relationships. Your successful management skills have the potential to impact every part of the business and save Google millions of dollars in operating costs. You'll ensure that we receive contract compliance on our third-party agreements, while identifying the most cost-effective solutions for our needs. You'll take lead on special projects, manage vendors and present your recommendations to Google leadership. As a Data Center Strategic Partner, you will collaborate with the team to identify potential locations and sites for self-developed data centers. You will establish agreements and build relationships with key stakeholders, including landowners, economic development officials, power grid and energy companies, telecommunications providers, government officials, data center developers, and data center providers. You will lead discussions on purchase and service agreements, managing a broad range of compliance issues, site and infrastructure development strategies, and milestone tracking. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible. + Work with internal and external technical teams to identify, define, and pursue initiatives necessary to meet Google's ongoing data center needs, including agreement of necessary utility connections (e.g., power, water, etc.) at existing and new green or brown field sites. + Monitor progress against objectives, providing regular status reports and advocating financial metrics to support both site and infrastructure related portfolio decisions. + Manage the strategy for ongoing growth at existing sites. + Develop metrics for mapping, tracking, and advocating of a broad range of portfolio management issues regarding site/infrastructure development. + Ability to work separately and think dynamically, while understanding and working toward the group and company goals and objectives. 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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.