Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in policy analysis and campaigns, working on technology issues or the policy environments that surround them.
- 7 years of experience working within government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.
- Ability to communicate in Turkish and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
- Bachelor's' Degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, International Relations, Law, or related degrees.
- Experience in high-pressure settings, demonstrating good decision-making in crises.
- Ability to integrate public policy with business strategy and corporate development.
- Proven ability to lead and deliver large-scale projects, ensuring successful completion and being self-supporting.
- Excellent networking skills, capable of leading campaigns and representing Google with executive policymakers.
- Excellent political, investigative, communication, and government relations skills.
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About the job
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.
Ability to communicate in Turkish and English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
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 Public Relation (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.