Strategic Partnership Development Manager, Education

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce. Learning is the ongoing quest for understanding, and we made it our mission more than 20 years ago to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful. The learning landscape is changing, and the Learning and Education team's mission is to help everyone in the world learn anything in the world. We provide the information, tools, and services that help people gain knowledge, fuel curiosity, and prepare for what’s next. We focus our work to add the most value for users to enable learning for school, work, and life. We believe everyone can and should have access to quality learning experiences to reach their full potential.

• Build, maintain, and evolve external relationships with partners and across the ecosystem, and manage strategic partnerships with entities of all sizes.
• Develop cross-product area strategic partner initiatives and build go-to-market strategies to meet broader Google goals across rapidly changing industries.
• Ideate and drive complex deals with potential partners and renewals/expansions for existing partners and build consensus with internal and external executives.
• Serve as the relationship manager for our current existing agreements. Help realize and optimize value from these partnerships while building effective long-term relationships.
• Engage with several internal cross-functional teams across multiple geographies to incubate, launch, improve, and scale new features and user experiences across markets and functional areas.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.
• Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
• Experience managing agreements or partnerships.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or other advanced degree.
• Experience managing complex, end-to-end partnerships.
• Experience working autonomously in a dynamic, ever-changing, and collaborative environment.
• Experience in partnerships or product management in an Internet or technology environment.
• Ability to identify potential business opportunities, assess financial/business benefit, structure agreements, and discuss terms with strategic partners.
• Excellent communication, investigative, problem-solving, process navigation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.