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This position is available in Mountain View, CA.

Google is looking for individuals who have extensive experience and remarkable skills in technical negotiation and business development to join the technical infrastructure negotiation team. This team is responsible for strategy, selection, negotiation, and execution of contracts with strategic vendors supplying services related to Google's global infrastructure. Individuals in this role will be responsible for working with internal technical and business teams as well as senior management to identify and define new projects and initiatives necessary to meet Google's ongoing needs for both expansion and cost reduction; will work closely with both existing and new vendors to identify highly cost effective conventional or out-of-the-box solutions for these initiatives; will negotiate with vendors and/or service providers for the most favorable commercial and technical terms possible; and will work with the legal and technical teams to negotiate and execute contracts for these mission critical services. These individuals will be expected to communicate progress on projects to both internal and external stakeholders, will have a passion for cost reduction and highly cost efficient solutions, and should be able to think outside of the box to find creative solutions to complicated negotiation challenges.

Google is looking for Strategic Negotiator candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Negotiations for collocation space in conventional data centers; for racks, power circuits, cross connects, and remote hands services in conventional data centers; and for wholesale transactions with conventional data centers in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
• Negotiation and purchasing of IP transit services in North America, Europe, Asia, and/or Latin America; negotiation of partnerships with Internet exchanges, regional peering providers, and paid peering arrangements with major carriers.
• Identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of development of a global backbone network; contracts and negotiation for managed metropolitan services and long haul wavelength services to fulfill capacity and redundancy requirements in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
• Identification and negotiation of contracts related to leases or purchases of data centers facilities and/or properties capable of conversion to data center purposes; experience with evaluating and assessing potential data center facilities for acquisition; experience negotiating startup, service, and maintenance contracts for data centers; experience obtaining data center infrastructure hardware including chillers, generators, UPS systems, transformers, power distribution units, etc.

Requirements:

• At least five years experience with strategic negotiations and/or business development in obtaining services from high technology providers in collocation, data center, network transit, network transport, or IT services; extensive experience with contract negotiation and vendor management with multiple vendors.
• Excellent organization skills, a high attention to detail, a passion for negotiating the best possible deals given technical and business constraints, an ability to think creatively (and encourage others to think creatively) about alternative solutions.
• An undergraduate degree preferably in a technical discipline.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), the ability to juggle multiple competing priorities simultaneously, and boundless enthusiasm and tenacity.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Strategic Negotiator, Global Infrastructure - Mountain View.

This position is available in Mountain View, CA.

Google has an immediate opening for a seasoned technical project manager to plan, facilitate, and manage the deployment of new services purchased from third party suppliers and vendors. This individual will work closely with the technical negotiation team to understand the terms of new contracts and arrangements including delivery targets and technical requirements; with internal project management teams to communicate target completion dates and ensure that all internal requirements are being met in a timely manner; with external vendors to gather and enforce schedules for installation of services; and with internal technical teams to ensure that all services meet with their technical and service requirements. This person will have overall responsibility for ensuring that services are delivered correct, cost effectively, and on schedule and for facilitating communications between all relevant stakeholders both internal and external.

Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree in a technical discipline.
• A minimum of three years technical project management experience in a technology company with planning and managing deployment of new third party services in the collocation or network spaces.
• A very good understanding of the technology behind data centers; network transit, transport, and peering; and technical operations is strongly preferred.
• Excellent organization skills, project tracking abilities, communications skills (both verbal and written); strong focus and attention to detail; the ability to work in a very fast-paced, hectic, and energetic environment.
• Excellent Internet and computing skills.
• A great attitude and willingness and ability to work within and between groups smoothly.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com. Important: The subject field of your email must include Project Manager, Technical Negotiations - Mountain View.