Policy Communications Manager

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or communications.
• Experience with stakeholder management, media liaison and campaign planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with content production and social media strategy.
• Experience working with regulatory-focused press.
• Understanding of the European institutional and regulatory process.
• Ability to work to tight timelines, coordinating information from various sources efficiently, sometimes out of European hours.
• Ability to collaborate and build strong relationships within and outside an organization.
• Ability to think, plan and execute multiple projects simultaneously.

About the job

As a member of the Global Communications & Public Affairs team, you will work cross-functionally to help communicate with journalists and other thought leaders; devise specific communications materials and campaigns; engage in face-to-face meetings with commentators and other opinion formers; and develop print and web-based material supporting these campaigns. We're looking for great communicators who can understand complex issues and explain them in person and also via well written, simple blog posts, FAQs, video scripts and more.

It's our job to help inform and educate users, advertisers, partners, opinion leaders--and our own employees--about the benefits of Google's products, our distinctive company culture/values, and our approach to the big public policy issues of the day. To succeed here, you'll combine creativity with organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines simultaneously, as well as enjoy pitching to journalists, bloggers and commentators, or producing internal communications and events for our employees. Things happen quickly at Google and to get stuff done here you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally and isn't hesitant to take risks or try new things.

Responsibilities

• Communicate about our compliance with European regulations, with a specific focus on the economy, and highlight how Google's innovations help drive economic activity.
• Ensure that Google's point of view is clearly represented in reporting about tech policy topics that impact society or the economy, Google's products, our customers and partners, and consumers across Europe.
• Act as a spokesperson for Google on economic topics for journalists and commentators that cover EU affairs.
• Design and execute external communications campaigns and drive measurable outcomes.
• Build new external communications processes, procedures, and methods with foresight to anticipate and address future issues.