Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience covering the power industry in an analytical role, consulting or investment banking.
  
• Experience in European power markets (e.g., wholesale and retail) or carbon-free energy technologies.
• Experience in core corporate and project finance concepts (e.g., cost of capital, net present value, financial ratios, financing vehicles, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience structuring and negotiating carbon-free-energy transactions.
• Knowledge of energy markets, utility rates, agreement structures, renewable energy or infrastructure development.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with the ability to coordinate with energy experts and non-experts on projects requiring inputs from multiple teams.
• Ability to understand complex problems and concepts and translate them into financial models, presentations and communicative collateral.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time as needed.

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.

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Energy and Location Strategy team works behind the scenes to secure electric power for Google's global fleet of data centers.

As an Energy Strategic Negotiator, you will analyze and communicate trends, and evaluate supply, investment opportunities, and agreement structures. You will work with project teams to support transactions, energy portfolio planning, and vendor and partner relationship management. Your ability to develop and communicate recommendations based on this analysis, has the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs, drive innovation in the energy industry 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'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

• Perform analyses (agreement structuring, power market analysis, financial forecasting), and develop salient recommendations based on modeling.
• Support transaction negotiations and structuring for energy supply, power infrastructure, and other data center energy agreements, including supply agreements, interconnection agreements, power purchases agreements, partnerships, etc.
• Interface with a variety of agreement team members (e.g., Negotiators, Portfolio Managers, Analytics Experts) and cross-company partner teams (Engineering, Finance, Legal, Accounting, etc.).
• Develop and lead agreement approvals, investment memos, and other transaction related materials with executives and partner teams.