Copyright and Content Policy Manager

Job Description

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working with government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups or corporations on challenges related to intellectual policy, media/communication policy or technology policy.
• Experience with copyright and content/media communications policy.
• Experience in legal analysis and research.

Preferred qualifications:

• EU-based legal training or work experience.
• Experience working with international teams and external stakeholders, executing strategies to deliver solutions.
• Knowledge of internet technologies and the policy environments that surround them.
• Ability to manage complex technical and policy issues.
• Ability to develop/implement creative ideas independently, with the discipline to manage multiple projects under tight-deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

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 rigor 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 join Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, working across regions, product areas, and functions. You will drive our copyright policy work across the European Union and various Member States, support our work across the globe on these critical topics and assist on media and communications policy issues and content regulation. Combining creativity and intellectual rigor with organizational skills, you will manage legislative files, projects, and initiatives and contribute to various campaigns.

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

• Manage Google’s European Government Affairs and Public Policy Intellectual Property portfolio working on global challenges with an emphasis on copyright and online creativity.
• Develop and build cross-functional support for strategies addressing intellectual property in the dynamic environment of new Internet technologies, including content-sharing platforms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
• Support global teams that work with trade associations, industry partners, non-profit groups, and other allies to shape a positive policy and regulatory environment and maintain an open internet. Advocate for Google externally and bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, such as Legal, Trust and Safety, Communications, and Marketing teams to provide advice on matters and regulatory developments relating to copyright and content policy.

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