Job Vacancies @ Google Nigeria – 4 Positions

Location: Lagos

About the Job

• Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all.
• Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow.
• Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis.
• You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business.
• Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.
• This is an opportunity to lead transformative relationships with companies in Africa. In this role, you will be able to shape how companies evolve in their digital transformation, and help them leverage Google products to achieve both their brand and performance goals.
• Our Large Customer Sales teams partner closely with many of the world’s biggest advertisers and agencies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands.
• We enjoy a bird’s eye view on the massive transformation occurring as advertising shifts to mobile and online platforms.
• We're uniquely situated to help shape how companies grow their businesses in the digital age.
• We advise clients on Google's broad range of products across search, video and mobile to help them connect instantly and seamlessly with their audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define the business strategy aligned to the customer's strategies by analyzing data, trends, client’s performance and business models, and identifying opportunities.
• Develop and maintain C-level relationships and serve as a point of contact to our customers with the goal of extending relationships, increasing the client’s growth, and optimizing the advertising resources.
• Develop strategic, forward thinking, data-driven analysis and consultative recommendations that align with customer goals and quantify high-impact opportunities with clear recommendations to present to clients.
• Establish and nurture sustainable relationships with advertisers, agencies, and ecosystem partners to serve as a trusted consultant.
• Educate the market on Google’s advertising solutions and contribute strategically to the growth, development, and direction of Google’s products and services in Sub Saharan Africa.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in advertising, sales, marketing, consulting, or media.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in media, business development, client relationships, and consulting.
• Experience in business and/or commercial leadership.
• Knowledge of, and established relationships within, the advertising industry.
• Knowledge of performance advertising, media strategy, consumer research, and campaign performance management.
• Knowledge of performance based advertising and how Google products can help deliver on client objectives.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos

About the Job

• As a Developer Ecosystem Communities Lead, you will coordinate and manage scalable developer outreach and support programs, including the Google Developer Groups (GDG), Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC), and Women Techmakers (WTM) programs, across the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
• This would include responsibility for Google events, as well as having responsibility for content.
• You will meet with local region developers and companies, promoting Google technologies and programs.
• You will also track both the apps and developers from your region, and look at how Google can better spotlight both them and their apps.
• You will find creative ways to increase impact by working closely with technology hubs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage scalable developer outreach and support programs, including the Google Developer Groups (GDG), Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC), and Women Techmakers (WTM) programs, across the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
• Meet with local region developers and companies, promoting Google technologies and programs.
• Track apps and developers from your region, and plan how Google can better spotlight them and their apps.

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Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in project / program management.
• Experience with team management, working with cross-functional teams, and leading operational initiatives.
• Experience in designing and implementing community driven programs / initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of speaking publicly and/or representing your organization successfully to external audiences.
• Experience in a developer-facing role.
• Experience with Google’s developer product offering.
• Ability to speak and write in French fluently.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

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.
• 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 keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
• As a Strategic Negotiator, you will be a representative of Google's peering and interconnect activities in the market, at various industry events, and in support of local business and policy teams.
• 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

• Define the peering and interconnect strategy for a particular region (i.e. points of presence attractiveness, local and regional expansion, etc.).
• Manage the relationship with peers in the region (e.g., capacity forecast, customized peering recommendations etc.).
• Support conversations with strategic partners related to direct interconnection.
• Lead partnerships in tandem with our Legal, Treasury, Policy, and Tax teams.
• Articulate Google's peering and interconnect position in the region to internal and external stakeholders. Communicate progress internally and collaborate with network teams.

Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Science, Law, Policy, Economics, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with telecommunications service providers acquiring or selling connectivity related solutions
• Experience selling or buying assets and solutions in emerging markets

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in negotiating complex agreements with ISP partners and/or Internet Exchanges
• Experience in negotiating wholesale agreements between carriers (e.g., roaming, wholesale, etc.)
• Proficient in internet concepts including routing (e.g., IGP/BGP), traffic management, interconnection, wholesale, and data center colocation services
• Knowledge of stakeholders, issues, and market trends within Africa
• Creative approach to solving unclear multi-stakeholder challenges.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Lagos, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg, South Africa.

Location: Lagos

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.
• As a Strategic Negotiator, you'll work with internal teams to oversee vendor and partner relationships. You will also develop and maintain relationships with Google's business units to help minimize any gap between Google's business ambitions and infrastructure capability.
• In this role, you'll ensure that we execute high-quality agreements with our suppliers, working closely with our planning, tax, policy, legal, and treasury teams, while identifying cost-effective solutions and optimal commercial frameworks for our needs. You'll take lead on projects, manage vendors, and present your recommendations to Google leadership.
• 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

• Collaborate with internal business and infrastructure technical teams to identify and define strategic initiatives necessary to meet Google's near-term and future network infrastructure needs.
• Build strategic relationships with vendors, identify compelling opportunities for partnership or expansion with teams, and determine specific solutions that meet commercial, technical, and timing requirements.
• Identify and manage agreements with vendors providing dark fiber, capacity, and colocation.
• Lead partnerships in tandem with our Legal, Treasury, Policy, and Tax teams.
• Articulate Google's peering and interconnect position in the region to internal and external stakeholders. Communicate progress internally and collaborate with network teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Science, Law, Policy, Economics, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with telecommunications service providers acquiring or selling connectivity related solutions
• Experience selling or buying assets and solutions in emerging markets

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Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in point of presence site selection
• Experience in negotiating wholesale agreements between carriers (e.g., roaming, wholesale, etc.)
• Experience working on long distance and metro telecommunications (i.e., wavelengths, spectrum, dark fiber, subsea cables)
• Knowledge of stakeholders, issues, and market trends within Africa
• Creative approach to solving unclear multi-stakeholder challenges

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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