Land Strategic Negotiator, Data Center Acquisitions and Development
Austin, TX
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Political Science, Statistics, Communications, Real Estate, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in program management, with a data center real-estate, infrastructure or transaction.
- 2 years of experience in data center land acquisition and site selection.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in real estate development, evaluation, acquisition, construction, and site selection for industrial-scale projects.
- Experience with power transmission and distribution, telecommunications infrastructure, data center technology, industrial-class electrical and cooling technology, or other related technical areas.
- Experience managing utility agreements and energy-related issues, utilizing financial modeling to drive and implement clean energy initiatives.
- Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, and infrastructure development, including agreement drafting and data-driven presentations within data center real estate markets.
- Ability to think outside the box and propose commercially and technically creative solutions.
- Ability to comfortably work in ambiguous, collaborative, and changing environments.
About the job
Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business.
The Global Acquisition and Development Team is a critical component of Google's Cloud Infrastructure organization. We are responsible for the acquisition and pre-development of real estate to support the rapid expansion of Google's global data center footprint.In this role, you will play a pivotal role in securing and positioning real estate for Google's data centers across the Americas. You will be responsible for all aspects of land acquisition and pre-development projects, from initial site identification and analysis to closing. You will work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, legal, finance, and community engagement, to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.Responsibilities
- Work in real-estate agreements from identification to close, including securing exclusivity, due diligence, and drafting definitive documents.
- Propose and establish benchmarks for timely and cost-effective project delivery, while upholding exceptional quality standards.
- Build investment committee presentations and partner effectively with finance teams.
- Report on critical data, performance, trends, and risks to leadership and stakeholder teams. Develop metrics and systems for mapping and tracking site/infrastructure development issues, utilizing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tooling to concisely represent program status.
- Maintain a comprehensive project schedule and manage internal expectations.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.