Partnership Development Manager, Google Play Games

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in business development, consulting, partnerships, or sales/marketing.

• Ability to speak and write in English and Japanese fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience negotiating and achieving strategic partnerships and renewals.
• Experience working with partners in the mobile or gaming industries.
• Experience leading complex and cross-functional projects.
• A passion for mobile games, mobile business, and technology.

About the job

Google Play serves users with applications and games that are innovative, useful, and entertaining. As a Partnership Development Manager, you will be part of the Google Play Partnership Development team focused on helping developers build successful businesses using the Android platform and Google Play.

In this role, you will manage, drive, and build games for Android. Additionally, you will help partners manage business growth creation and growth on Google Play.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead partnership strategy and relationship management with game developers. Advocate for and drive adoption of strategic Google Play and Android platform/products.
• Identify emerging opportunities, market developments, and challenges in the gaming ecosystem and develop strategic recommendations/plans.
• Develop and execute plans to help developers build an excellent game experience and quality, platform innovation, and partner’s business successes.
• Provide consultations to partner’s game business based on analysis of partner metrics, performance, best practices, and strategic priorities.
• Provide actionable insights to shape product and drive impactful collaboration with cross-functional teams (e.g., product, engineering, marketing, payments, etc.) to grow the Google Play ecosystem.

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