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Location: Lagos Nigeria (In-office)

About the Job

• A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
• As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish - working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company.
• Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
• Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us.
• As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
• The Developer Ecosystem Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) team at Google is a dedicated group of extremely collaborative Program Managers who are passionate about supporting SSA’s dynamic and fast-growing developer and startup ecosystem.
• We’re never satisfied with the status quo, continually iterating on our strategy and programs to ensure we have the largest possible impact on the SSA ecosystem and within Google.
• You will take on the high-level strategic challenges while also ensuring operational excellence across programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, including driving the team's strategy while collaborating with stakeholders to gain buy-in, leading and executing initiatives with the group, setting goals, measuring success, and sharing best practices across the community
• Liaise with key stakeholders, including mentors (in Africa and beyond), startups, and teams across Google, ensuring all logistics and operations are performed at the highest standards
• Launch and manage targeted programs to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across the startup ecosystem, including Black Founders Fund Africa and similar programs targeted at underrepresented groups across Africa
• Source and generate startup-appropriate technology training around Google platforms, including Google Cloud, TensorFlow, Android, Web, and Firebase.

Qualifications

• Experience in Project / Program Management with cross-functional and/or growth startup experience
• Experience with team management, working with cross-functional teams, and leading operational initiatives
• Ability to travel internationally 20% of the time.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with venture capital firms, angel investors, and/or startup accelerator programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Experience of working closely with executives, product, and engineering teams
• Experience with process automation and event management
• Strategic thinker with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, solving complex problems, and developing creative solutions

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About the Job

• Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Chrome, Android) or a business product (Google Ads, AdSense, Google Marketing Platform, Analytics), you take part in a complete marketing experience as you lead every facet of the product's journey.
• From determining positioning, naming, competitive analysis, feature prioritization and external communications, you help shape the voice of the product and help it grow a consumer base.
• This means you work with a cross-functional team across Sales, corporate communications, legal, webmasters, product development, engineering and more. In this role, you'll be involved with product marketing strategy from beginning to end.
• Join Google’s Sub-Saharan Africa Platforms & Ecosystems Marketing team, working to solve access barriers for more people to access the internet and get online across the region.
• Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways.
• Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental.
• And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Develop marketing plans for Android in Sub-Saharan Africa and execute campaigns (co-marketing and owned) to drive usage of Google apps.
• Define and execute go-to-market strategies and organizational coordination for feature/product launches.
• Define the retail marketing strategy for Android in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Use quantitative methods, models, and research to help Google better understand consumer behavior.
• Leverage marketing insights to better understand our customers and represent the voice of the user whilst developing actionable, data-driven insights to inform product and marketing strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience in tech marketing, brand management, strategy consulting or agency.
• Experience working with partners and businesses to drive mutual value.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing partnerships.
• Demonstrated analytical success. Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy.
• Penchant for technology, creativity to "think outside the box” and leadership to execute effectively.
• Global mindset and ability to think across disciplines, industries, cultures and scenarios. Ability to manage and coordinate projects that span multiple locations.
• Understanding of Google's products, technology industry, mobile industry and Google/Android’s positioning in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.