Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator, Energy and Power
About The Position
Google's Strategic Negotiation team secures infrastructure to support Google's future, including physical data center space. Strategic Negotiators use market knowledge and technology-industry expertise to negotiate cost-effective solutions for infrastructure growth. They work with project teams to negotiate deals, manage vendor and partner relationships, and present deal recommendations to technology leadership. Successful negotiations can reduce operating costs and affect the broader business. This position is part of Google's Technical Infrastructure team, which develops and maintains data centers and builds Google platforms. The role focuses on energy supply formation and commercial structuring, energy partnerships, and energy due diligence supporting data center site selection and project development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in energy project development, utility procurement, or finance/consulting roles.
- 6 years of experience developing or structuring power purchase agreements for microgrids, behind-the-meter power agreements, gas turbines, battery energy storage systems (BESS), fuel cells, or geothermal energy.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, agreement drafting, and presentation development, along with data center real estate markets.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex energy supply formation and commercial structuring, including first-of-their-kind behind-the-meter clean baseload energy deals involving Power, Performance, and Area (PPAs), microgrid contracts, and utility energy supply contracts such as special tariff development and sleeving structures.
- Drive cross-functional workstreams involving regional market trend analysis, project economics and generation dispatch modeling, accounting and treasury risk assessment, technical engineering analysis of system design, and leadership alignment to support decisions and approvals.
- Identify new energy-ready sites and develop and strengthen relationships with independent power producers (IPPs), utilities, cooperatives, and other energy stakeholders.
- Support growth of Google's data center portfolio through energy due diligence during site selection and data center project development.
Benefits
- 15% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
