Strategic Partner Development Lead, Suncatcher

Job description

info_outline About the job As a Strategic Partner Development Manager, you'll open doors with potential partners, lead exploratory discussions and evaluate/develop business opportunities. You will lead cross-functional teams, provide thought leadership and serve as a mentor to managers and associates. You are comfortable escalating and presenting business development strategies and key issues to senior management. You'll work closely with Google Product, Engineering, Legal and Sales teams on new product initiatives and key strategic relationships that support our online advertising business.

As a part of the Global Research and Tech and Society Partnerships team, you will drive hundreds of partnerships required to support a vast array of initiatives impacting almost every Google Product Area. These deals are highly negotiated, bespoke agreements involving complex IP considerations in highly regulated environments. You will engage strategically, spending significant time upfront to understand the technology and develop thoughtful partnership strategies before executing.

As a part of Project Suncatcher, Google’s moonshot initiative embedded across Google Tech and Society and the AI Infrastructure organization to scale machine learning compute by developing space-based, solar-powered data centers, you will deploy Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware into low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations interconnected via high-speed optical links. The project aims to harness abundant solar energy and overcome terrestrial power and thermal scaling limits.

In this role, you will help shape the external aerospace and technology ecosystem critical to executing this goal. This role may involve working with technical information that is export-controlled. Non-US persons would require an export license to do so (US citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain protected individuals are considered “US persons” under applicable law).The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners.

Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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$140000 - $203000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google .