Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in policy engagement with policymakers, working on technology or content issues, or the policy environments that surround them.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working within government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.

• Knowledge or an interest in YouTube and the issues affecting YouTube's business operations and interests in the region.

• Ability to execute compelling and influential written communications.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills with high attention to detail.

• Ability to communicate in English and one other European language fluently in order to communicate with policymakers.

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.

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.

• Be a point of contact for the Google Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team on YouTube strategy, policy, and campaigns in the region.

• Support the Senior Director in the development and execution of policy and campaign plans.

• Support YouTube's Public Policy in Europe, working with the YouTube GAPP in Brussels to represent the company's interests to policymakers and key opinion formers.

• Support the YouTube GAPP team's, particularly Brussels lead's, proactive engagement in Brussels on key issues and files including youth, media, copyright, and AI.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.