Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager

Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience working on technology policy issues within government, think tanks, public interest groups, companies, or related industry associations.
- Ability to speak and write in English and Portuguese fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Clinical experience, including experience in the healthcare industry.
- Experience in the video, media, and/or entertainment industry.
- Experience working with a diverse range of clients or partners to build impactful and collaborative relationships, establishing complex agreements.
- Ability to think strategically and convert complex issues into straightforward, timely action.
- Ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally and externally.
**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.
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**:
- Lead public policy strategy for a set of Emerging Market regions for Google’s Compute Product Areas, including working with cross-functional teams to support our global business objectives and drive policy and regulatory outcomes.
- Build internal and external networks which will allow you to support your colleagues in various Emerging Markets, help them get resources, and answer questions as well as inform Google Product of their challenges and opportunities.
- Work with Product, Business, and Engineering teams as well as the regional policy teams in Emerging Markets to advise on the political implications of product development in Google’s Compute.
- Engage directly with policymakers, industry players, and key opinion formers to shape political dialogue that impact Google’s business objectives.
- Manage policy projects on a host of issues affecting Google’s Compute, including user privacy, platforms, competition, and cross-industry relations.
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.

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