About the job

As a member of Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, youll 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. Youre passionate about the opportunity to shape the future of how we use and build technology for everyone.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:

• Research and develop public policy positions, campaigns, and work programmes as part of a broad cross-functional team.
• Build relationships with a wide range of external stakeholders including policy makers, industry bodies, and third parties to share information about Google’s work in Central Eastern Europe.
• Manage communications, events, programmes, and initiatives to raise awareness of Google’s work in Central Eastern Europe.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in government, public affairs, advocacy, campaigns, or journalism.
• Ability to communicate in Polish and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with or in government, NGOs, regulatory agencies, or corporate public policy teams.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, variety of stakeholders across multiple countries, and executing strategies to deliver solutions.
• Experience analyzing, studying, providing insights, or advocating for digital-related policies, both at national and international levels.
• Ability to illustrate topics including intermediary liability, data privacy and governance, AI, digital/audiovisual content, or digital market competition and regulation, with knowledge of Internet technologies and the policy environments that surround them.
• Ability to identify/gather insights and communicate complex technology policy issues.

Benefits: 

• Health and Wellbeing (Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents)
• Financial wellbeing (Competitive compensation, regular bonus and equity refresh opportunities)
• Flexibility and time off (Paid time off, including vacation, bereavement, jury duty, sick leave, parental leave, disability, and holidays)
• Family support and care (Fertility and growing family support, parental leave and baby bonding leave)
• Community and personal development (Educational reimbursement)
• Googley extras (Inspiring spaces to work, recharge, and collaborate with fellow Googlers)