Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in business, technology, economics engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in one or more of the following fields: real estate acquisition, development or investment in data centers, industrial/logistics, high technology/labs, consulting, or site selection.
• Experience in consulting, program management, and stakeholder engagement.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing large-scale, dynamic technical projects with fast-paced timelines, competing resources and priorities.
• Technical competency, and experience with physical infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate with diverse-stakeholders, articulate directional plan for long-term growth to help the teams understand context, and feed into team and resource prioritization.
• Excellent communication skills.

About the job

As a Site Architecture and Strategy Manager, youll have daily interaction with regional leads and strategic negotiators who are active in the markets to explain the trajectory of metro infrastructure growth within their region and for acquisition projects translate between central planning teams and regional acquisition negotiators. You will provide market context to our Data Center Supply Planning teams and ensure the regional negotiators have all the latest drivers and expectations of cloud incorporated into the their regional plans.

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 Googles product portfolio possible. Were 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.

Responsibilities

• Bring together knowledge on architecture, deep engagement with internal stakeholders on business agreement options and competitive landscape, and close collaboration with supply-demand interactions.
• Prepare and develop market growth plans for both new and existing regions and keep them updated on a regular basis.
• Liaise with and act as a bridge across the Data Center Energy and Location Strategy, Google Cloud and Supply Planning teams ensuring that business drivers are represented and market knowledge is represented.
• Work closely with negotiators to understand supply in each Google Cloud metro and options available in the market. Leverage the subject-matter expertise from the leads and negotiators, layering in expertise on Google Cloud architecture and data centers.
• Develop internal recommendations based on agreements/market intel provided/negotiated by negotiators and work with supply planning to incorporate into plans.