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Google Hiring for Strategic Negotiator, Google Enterprise Networks at Austin, TX Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Technology, or Science or equivalent practical experience
- 5 years of experience with business development in obtaining services from technology providers, internet transit, network transport, telecommunications, or IT services
- Experience in networking and telecommunications technologies (e.g., Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, TCP/IP, fiber, WAN design, etc.)
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience facilitating agreements in both North America and international markets, and working with government agencies and regulators
- Experience with agreement development and vendor management across multiple vendors
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time
- Understanding of domestic and global carrier networks
About the job
We provide efficient, resilient, and secure connectivity empowering Googlers to succeed, innovate, and impact the world.
In this role, you will own and manage strategic, external agreements and vendor management. You’ll facilitate agreements that will yield long-term results such as shorter time-to-market, cost savings, and operational efficiency. In addition to agreements/service agreements, you will manage vendors across regions to ensure proactive, collaborative alliances and relationships.
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
- Manage high complexity and scope projects. Work with multiple circuits in a package or in markets with vendors and our Legal team.
- Develop and execute innovative solutions to complex and ambiguous acquisitions globally or regionally. Seek opportunities and creative ways to leverage or enhance existing relationships.
- Develop a global vendor relationship/pricing strategy and serve as the lead point of contact for a number of complex vendors in parallel.
- Stay in tune with our roadmap and growth goals to proactively onboard vendors in different markets.
- Work with teams to identify opportunities by performing analysis on out of network utilization and using data to identify network development opportunities.
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 Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
