Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, Hardware Partnerships

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking, in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, 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.

• Experience in scaling the business in partnership with external partners.
• Experience in sales in the mobile and technology industries, including experience in mobile phone sales, business development, or sales strategy with Australian Telecom carriers and retailers.
• Understanding of mobile device categories issues, a goal for growth, and a commitment to advance strategies within the marketplace.
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization, to build relationships, and to rally teams across organizational lines.

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.

As Strategic Partnership Manager, you will be a key stakeholder in building and delivering a long-term strategy to sustainably scale our business. In close partnership with our Telco and Retail partners, you will recognize the opportunities to bring Google products to market in both traditional and unique ways. You will shape how new and existing products grow in a sales environment. You will work collaboratively with a team in a highly matrixed organization to achieve your goals aligned with Google's values of respect and inclusivity.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google's Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google's own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google's user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

• 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 agreements 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.