Strategic Outreach and Visits Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience working within government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.
• 4 years of experience in policy analysis and campaigns, working on technology issues or the policy environments that surround them.
  
• 3 years of experience leading projects and working with cross-functional teams, including experience interacting with senior stakeholders and executives.
• 2 years of experience with outreach and engagement strategies.
• Experience working on the logistics of events and events planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• Understanding of protocol and the ability to navigate bureaucracies.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills in a paced environment.

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 Strategic Outreach and Visits team, you will play an important role in shaping Google's external engagement strategy – identifying and deploying executive voices to educate policy audiences, amplify announcements, and ensure the company's voice is heard on key policy issues. You will be responsible for building and executing strategic outreach plans, driving collaborative but efficient processes, synthesizing insights from high-level executive visits, and helping drive message discipline.

In this role, you will identify common issues across complex multi-country engagements, make connections between global engagements, work on multiple projects simultaneously, and effectively integrate relevant business priorities and case studies into talking points for events and meetings.

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.

• Identify policy issues that may affect Google, and understand the impact on Google business and users, and participate in policy campaigns with clear goals to shape a policy or set of policies.
  
• Craft written briefing materials for executives to prepare them for meetings and events. Identify needed collateral (e.g. talking points and other materials) to support engagements and work with internal partners to source.
• Develop and execute outreach plans and identify speakers for engagement opportunities.
• Integrate best practices into the preparation and execution of visits and global events. Track and measure the impact against engagement goals.
• Coordinate trip schedules for engagement programs including visits to campus, and work with executive teams to incorporate preferences and identify existing travel opportunities in region.