Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in policy analysis and campaigns, working on technology issues or the policy environments that surround them.
- 7 years of experience working within government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations related to copyright, intellectual property, and media/publisher policy issues.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in APAC copyright or media/news policy issues.
- Experience in executing cross-functional projects.
- Experience working with international teams and a variety of stakeholders, developing relationships internally and externally.
- Ability to exercise good judgment in a rapidly changing and sometimes stressful environment, understanding the right levers to pull in a situation.
- Ability to identify opportunities and areas for improvement to lead and evaluate issues separately.
- Ability to help solve problems with multiple approaches to reach an optimal solution with excellent political, problem-solving, and communication skills with high attention to detail.
About The Job
As a member of Google's Government Affairs and Public Policy team, you'll be part of a 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.
In this role, you will join Google's Content team in the Government Affairs and Public Policy Centers of Excellence. This is a global team, working across geographies, business areas and functions to help shape Google's approach to content regulation and the future of the open web.
In this role, you will be part of a global team focused on policy and regulatory issues related to copyright, intellectual property, media/news, including issues related to AI. You will partner with Product, Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Communications and Trust and Safety teams as well as teams across Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP). You will develop and execute our policy strategy, analyze and respond to new legislative and regulatory proposals, and craft our external narrative on key policy issues. You will provide subject matter expertise to internal stakeholders working on these issues and represent the company with government legislators and regulators, third-party experts, civil society organizations, and industry groups.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
- Manage Google's APAC Government Affairs and Public Policy Intellectual Property portfolio, working on global challenges relating to access to information with an emphasis on AI and copyright.
- Monitor and research emerging public policy issues. Develop policy positions, papers, and principles to shape public debate regarding copyright and media issues.
- Support outreach and engage with policymakers, regulators, industry players and Key Opinion Formers (KOFs) on copyright and media policy issues.
- Support the analysis and response to legislative and regulatory proposals, including developing negotiating positions and strategy. Advocate for Google externally and bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction.
- Work with Legal, Product, Engineering, Trust and Safety, and teams across Google to advise on copyright and media policy issues, legislative and regulatory risks and opportunities, and responsible policy and product development.
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 .
