Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager, Cloud

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**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience working on technology policy issues within government, think tanks, public interest groups, law, or relevant industry associations.
- 10 years of experience working in public affairs, political communications, or political campaigns, or within government.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience working on public policy issues in the technology industry as an advisor and partner to business teams in product development, go-to-market, and other business areas.
- Experience in policy and political issues relating to technical infrastructure (e.g., data centers), IaaS products, PaaS products, and SaaS products.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of executing cross-functional projects.
- Ability to identify and interpret key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals, and understand and communicate business and policy implications to internal and external stakeholders.

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. Were 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.
The GAPP Cloud team works with the Google Cloud and Google Public Sector product areas to advise on public policy issues. We work closely with product and business teams to minimize risk and increase opportunity for success and growth. Our team's mission is to help Google, governments, and civil society responsibly navigate the social, political and economic issues of our time.In this role, you will lead global strategic policy campaigns, and support Google Cloud stakeholders for our government affairs and public policy efforts.
We 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. You are quick-witted, entrepreneurial and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines. Things happen quickly at Google, and to do great work, you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally with partners across PR, Communications, Marketing, Product, and beyond.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop and lead global strategic policy initiatives to advance business priorities for Cloud Global Affairs and Public Policy team.
- Work closely and collaboratively with regional Cloud GAPP, other GAPP teams and Cloud Legal on product, compliance, regulatory, and legal initiatives that require product, compliance, and regulatory expertise and engagement with the primary goal of promoting Google Cloud adoption in key jurisdictions.
- Engage with officials on strategic agreements, challenging new certification standards and upcoming legislation impacting our business strategy.
- Provide strategic policy advice to Cloud leadership to inform our product and business strategy.

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