Google is looking for a Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager.
About the job:
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 rigor 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.
As a member of Google’s Public Policy team, you will help shape various product and issue agendas with policy makers inside and outside government. In addition, you will help advise our internal teams on the public policy implications of their products, working with a closely coordinated and cross-functional global team. In this role, you will have significant experience either working with or in government, politics, or a regulatory agency as well as an ability to grasp complex technical and policy issues.
As a Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, you will represent Google externally with government, regulators, and third-parties, as well as help manage and lead our local public policy strategy and campaigns. You will work with a cross-functional team of Google employees in Russia as well as with a closely-coordinated global Public Policy team to advance policy positions for our users.
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.
Experience working in national politics, government, think tanks, public interest groups, or corporate public policy.
Working experience in policy.
Ability to speak and write in English and Russian fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience in Internet technologies and the policy environments that surround them and an ability to quickly get up to speed on complex technical and regulatory issues.
Knowledge of the tech sector or the key issues impacting the Web (e.g., data privacy, free expression, Internet access, and online safety).
Excellent personal, political, analytical, and organizational skills.
Ability to take initiative, adapt quickly to changing priorities, and work with a high sense of urgency across a variety of matters.
Interest in the Internet and effective team player with drive and determination.
Responsibilities:
Develop and lead public policy campaigns across the full range of policy areas that impact Google and the web (e.g., technology innovation, open internet, privacy, and intellectual property).
Engage directly with policy-makers.
Build a network of trade associations, industry partners, non-profit groups, and others to support policies that will help create/maintain a user-focused online environment.
Enhance public outreach on behalf of Google, including public speaking at events.
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