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Library Partner Manager – Digitization
| Company | Google |
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| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| Salary | $134000 – $196000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in library science, education, linguistics, history, or a related discipline.
- 7 years of experience in managing partnerships, collaborations, or external relations, coordinating technology-driven projects, workflows, and systems.
- Ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time as needed to meet with partners and attend industry events, etc.
Responsibilities
- Own external partner communications & relationships. Representing partnerships work within engineering & product discussions.
- Develop long term strategy and pipeline for new libraries & external partner engagement.
- Troubleshoot some technical problems for our partners, solving view-ability problems for potentially hundreds or thousands of digital books.
- Attend and sometimes lead industry-wide events around digitization, digital image quality and digital collections.
- Coordinate cross-functionally with operations, engineering, product and other teams to deliver on the goals of the project and our partners.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in negotiating agreements or managing relationships, preferably in a library, archive, museum, or academic setting.
- Experience working with digital asset management systems and library metadata.
- Ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally, while building strong, strategic stakeholder relationship.
- Excellent people management, communication (verbal and written), and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively engage and build rapport with stakeholders.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
