Job Description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in policy analysis and campaigns, working on technology issues or the policy environments that surround them.
• 4 years of experience working within government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.
• Ability to communicate in English and Polish fluently in order to interact with external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to work well under pressure, persevere, and achieve goals. Demonstrated bias towards execution.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

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 be crucial in managing public policy campaigns for Google in Poland. Your external focus will be on engaging with stakeholders inside and outside the Polish government. In addition to this, you will work closely with the entire team to lead on implementing organisational plans, campaigns, executive visits and strategy development.

As a member of Google's Public Policy team in Central and Eastern Europe, you will help shape various product and issue agendas with policy makers inside and outside the government. In addition, you will help advise our internal teams on the public policy implications of their products, working with a closely coordinated and cross-functional global team. The role requires experience either working with or in the Polish government, politics or a regulatory agency as well as an ability to grasp complex technical and policy issues.

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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Poland: zł252000 - zł258000 (PLN) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• 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.
• Monitor and research current and relevant emerging public policy issues considering how Google should work with allied organizations and industries, and work with business-area leadership, Legal, Marketing, Trust and Safety, and PR to develop and launch policy-friendly products.
• Address policy and government relations problems, and develop and execute policy strategy in a way that benefits the users and business.