Jobs at Google

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 14 years of experience leading negotiations or business development.
• Experience in telecommunications service providers acquiring, or selling connectivity related solutions.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience negotiating wholesale carrier agreements (e.g., interconnection, RIO, wholesale), and deep understanding of internet concepts like routing (IGP/BGP), traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Experience in negotiating agreements with partners, including Telecoms, Access Providers, ISPs, Internet Exchanges, and Colocation providers.
• Ability to solve ambiguous, multi-stakeholder challenges and translate problems into clear financial models, presentations, and marketing materials.
• Knowledge of the Sub-Sahara Africa market, including key stakeholders, emerging issues, and current trends.
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, enabling coordination with technical and cross-functional teams, to achieve project goals in a fast-paced environment.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal technical teams to define strategic network infrastructure initiatives, addressing Google's current and future needs. This includes identifying necessary projects and aligning them with overall network strategy.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with vendors, identifying compelling partnership opportunities and developing specific solutions that meet commercial, technical, and timeline requirements. This encompasses negotiating agreements and ensuring vendor performance.
• Identify and manage agreements with vendors providing essential network resources such as dark fiber, capacity, and colocation services. This includes evaluating proposals, negotiating agreements, and overseeing service delivery.
• Lead and coordinate partnerships with external organizations, working closely with internal Legal, Treasury, Policy, and Tax teams to ensure compliance and alignment with Google's overall objectives.
• Articulate Google's peering and interconnect position within the region to both internal and external stakeholders.

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in a HR Business Partner or HR Generalist role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience implementing large-scale HR projects, risk management/mitigation and supporting change management, business readiness, communications, and training activities.
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and drive decisions with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Deep understanding of labour law and labour relations environment in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa).
• Problem solving skills, critical thinking and analysis.
• Strong project management skills and delivery, able to manage multiple simultaneous priorities.
• Excellent change management skills.

About the job

• People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You'll be an advocate of Google's culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.
• Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.

Responsibilities

• Manage market compliance requirements, risk assessments, regulatory requirements, labor relations engagements, local employment policy, and practices to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.
• Manage relationships with employee representatives and third-parties, working closely with EMEA and Global Labor Relations teams on global labor relations strategy, training, and coaching.
• Lead the deployment of high-priority country-focused HR programs aligned to country people plans in Africa, and collaborating with relevant teams to ensure end-to-end delivery for HR processes.
• Work with compliance, process ownership, user support, and COE teams to prioritize and mitigate market risks, and driving and owning recommendations to ensure work is in service of the end-to-end delivery of the Googler Experience.
• Provide local context and advice on key HR-related matters.