Senior Strategic Negotiator, Energy

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications:

- BA/BS degree in policy, law, economics, business, technology, or science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience working with electric utilities, regulators, clean energy advocates or policymakers.
- Experience managing multiple work streams and coordinate projects requiring inputs from multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working with multilateral organizations.
- Knowledge of macro level energy markets and policy trends.
- Ability to solve nebulous multi-stakeholder challenges.
- Ability to speak and write in Mandarin Chinese and/or Japanese fluently in order to effectively communicate with representatives from external stakeholders in-market, who may be from Taiwan or Japan.
- Exceptional spoken and written communication and project management skills.

**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.

In this role, you will help to drive the team's overall energy-related strategy development and execution, lead individual strategic initiatives and projects, and work with energy teams across the company in support of Google's data center portfolio and related infrastructure. In particular, this position will focus on forging new renewable power supply frameworks in data center markets.

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're always on call to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead APAC regional energy strategy, assess risks and opportunities for Google’s data center portfolio, and build a program to meet Google's Clean Energy needs in the region to support TI Climate Goals.
- Identify new financial and commercial structures to meet Google’s 24/7 CFE and Net Zero goals across different regions and technologies, including markets where direct procurement of carbon free energy by end users is not currently possible.
- Evaluate opportunities (financial analysis, feasibility, impact on Google’s climate goals) and lead selection and prioritization process.
- Own and drive projects from ideation to execution of contracts and investments.
- Improve current or invent new approaches, creating solutions to solve business problems and ensure objectives are achieved whilst maintaining relationships with external partners and internal partner teams.

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.