Public Policy and Government Relations Manager (English) – Google

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As a member of Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, you’ll be part of a diverse global government affairs team, working across regions, product areas, and functions. You’ll combine creativity and intellectual excellence with the organizational skills to manage various campaigns, projects and initiatives. In this role, you’ll advocate for Google to bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction. You’re passionate about the opportunity to shape the future of how we use and build technology for everyone.

In this role, you will help shape various product and issue agendas with policy makers inside and outside government. You will help advise our internal teams on the public policy implications of products, working with a closely coordinated and cross-functional global team.

Google takes its responsibilities seriously, including engaging with government and other stakeholders on important public policy challenges. The Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team leads the company’s engagement with executive branch officials, legislators, regulators and third-parties in the formation of public policy. Working closely with Google leaders, GAPP seeks to identify key policy issues, listen carefully to others’ views and opinions, and distill and share the company’s perspective on those issues with external stakeholders. While we focus on challenges affecting the internet, our issue areas are increasingly broad and encompass many areas where public policy, business, and technology intersect.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in government, a regulatory agency, politics, or a corporate or public interest agency.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working within national politics, government, think tanks, public interest groups, or the field of corporate public policy.
• Experience working in high-impact environments.
• Experience with privacy, intellectual property, content regulation, telecommunications, and/or online safety policy.
• Ability to work well in a team with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, including to lead campaigns and mentor members of the team.
• Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills, and the ability to translate complex issues into simple language.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead public policy campaigns across the full range of policy areas that impact Google and the web.
• Engage directly with politicians and policy makers.
• Build a network of trade associations, industry partners, non-profit groups, and others to support policies that will help create and maintain a user-focused online environment as well as an open Internet.