Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, Content

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working on technology policy issues with Europe institutions, or with inhouse public policy functions.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience advocating on tech policy issues related to intermediary liability and information quality, child safety, copyright, and harmful content.
• Knowledge of internet technologies and the policy environments that surround them.
• Understanding of working with the Council of Europe or another Europe institution, and a network of strategic external relationships.
• Understanding of political dynamics and their respective business impacts on a company.
• Ability to be a team player and navigate at the highest political level.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, with communication capabilities.
  
  

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 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.

As part of the Europe Policy team in Brussels, you’ll help shape Google’s policy efforts and answer requests from policymakers. You’ll organize, manage, coordinate and communicate on outreach to Europe institutions on various policy areas, particularly around information quality and content moderation.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an outreach strategy, and engage with the Europe institutions on various policy areas affecting our industry, especially child safety, copyright, and IP.
• Manage various regulatory proposals, reputational campaigns, and executive outreach.
• Be responsible for a number of advocacy strategies on specific regulatory proposals relating to platform policies, data, privacy and security.
• Coordinate relevant policy activities with the various Google policy teams located in a number of Europe countries, as well as with the global teams on key policy challenges.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .