Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or communications.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  

About the job

As a member of the Global Communications & Public Affairs team, you will work cross-functionally to help communicate with journalists and other thought leaders; devise specific communications materials and campaigns; engage in face-to-face meetings with commentators and other opinion formers; and develop print and web-based material supporting these campaigns. We're looking for great communicators who can understand complex issues and explain them in person and also via well written, simple blog posts, FAQs, video scripts and more.

The Corporate Communications team at Google is responsible for managing Google's reputation among external audiences such as industry, Startups, policymakers, and the media. The team works with teams across Product, Partnerships, Marketing, Public Policy, and Legal to create communications strategies, train spokespeople, develop external positions, and manage media relations.

We help inform and educate users, advertisers, partners, opinion leaders--and our own employees--about the benefits of Google's products, our distinctive company culture/values and our approach to the big public policy issues of the day. You are quick-witted, entrepreneurial and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines. Things happen quickly at Google, and to do great work, you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally with partners across PR, Communications, Marketing, Product, and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Represent a business or product area and act as a spokesperson.
  
• Manage agencies for programs by defining objectives, identifying key tasks or work-streams, providing content, and establishing/monitoring budget.
  
• Represent cross-functional product area and business areas.
  
• Respond to editorial inquiries and requests for information release, support and work with the journalist to provide additional information.
  
• Coordinate and facilitate interviews and review briefing materials to prepare key spokespeople for cross-functional communications, and coach executives on PR and external communications.