Developer Relations Ecosystem Program Manager at GOOGLE, Sub-Saharan Africa Lagos, Nigeria

Job details

Team or role:

Program Management; Developer Relations

Job type:

Full-time

Last updated:

Sep 26, 2015

Job location(s):

Lagos, Nigeria

 

Responsibilities

• Ensure that developers, startups and partners in the local region are successful through building applications and businesses on Google's platforms.
• Coordinate and execute both online and offline outreach in the local region. This could include responsibility for community-driven events like Google Developer Groups events, as well as having responsibility for local content, regional blogs and social networking channels.
• Identify and engage key top developers in the region to become Google Developer Experts and connect local GDEs with internal and other external experts/communities.
• Ensure that the GDG program is active and sustainable across Sub-Saharan Africa. Track performance of GDG chapters and manage growth of the GDG program.
• Map and understand the local region’s developer and startup ecosystem.

Minimum qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience as an active participant in technical/developer/startup communities.
• Experience with conference presentation or other public speaking.
• Good understanding of Google’s developer product offering.
• Excellent coordination, communication and project management skills.
• Fluency in English, French and/or Portuguese.

Area

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
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