Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 20 years of experience in government affairs, political campaigning, or strategic advocacy within the APAC region.
• Experience managing cross-border teams and leading external engagements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using non-traditional advocacy tools (e.g., social media, influencer engagement, and grassroots digital tactics) to achieve policy wins.
• Experience driving a high-performing, high-morale culture of excellence.
• Experience managing policy issues for products with massive global footprints and understanding the unique responsibility that comes with that scale.
• Fluency in the political economies of key APAC markets and a network that spans the region's digital policy community.
• Ability to build consensus across peer functions, translating innovation into actionable political strategy.

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.

As the Director of APAC External Engagement for Platforms and Devices, you will not simply manage risk—you will create the conditions for the future of computing. In a region this unique and dynamic, "playing defense" is not enough. You will lead an affirmative agenda, ensuring that Google’s integrated ecosystem is not just compliant, but catalyzed by regional policy. You will understand that traditional policy white papers and closed-door summits don’t move the needle. You will be a strategist who builds enduring government relationships grounded in shared success, motivate and mobilize allied industry players, and creatively engage political influencers to shape the narrative around our products.

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

• Move beyond reactive monitoring to create a proactive regional strategy that opens pathways for our core products and growth areas.
• Operate with the mindset that for a traditional government affairs professional.
• Shape the narrative and regulatory environment to ensure the AI transition empowers users and businesses, positioning Google as a strategic partner to APAC governments in solving societal challenges.
• Engage political influencers and utilize social media and digital-first campaigning to move the needle. Prioritize narrative agility and creative engagement over traditional policy white papers.

Operate with the mindset that for a traditional government affairs professional.