Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager

**Minimum qualifications**:- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.- 8 years of experience working in Mexico with government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporations on challenges related to intellectual property or technology policy concerns.- Ability to communicate in Spanish and English fluently.**Preferred qualifications**:- Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and executing strategies to deliver solutions.- Experience with tech industry and tech related policies.- Experience analyzing, studying, providing insights, or advocating for digital-related policies, both at national and/or Latam levels. Ability to illustrate topics including intermediary liability, data privacy and governance, AI, digital/audiovisual content, or digital market competition and regulation.- Ability to identify/gather insights and communicate complex technology policy issues.- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, think and move quickly, manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.- Excellent problem solving, organizational, and communication skills, and high attention to detail.**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.As Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) Manager, you will represent Google externally with regulators and third-parties, and help manage our local public policy campaigns and craft policy positions for the assigned region.You will also work with the GAPP team for Latin America and cross-functional teams around the region, as well as with a closely-coordinated Emerging Markets and global GAPP team to advance policy positions.In this role, you will be responsible for developing and leading public policy campaigns across the full range of policy areas, such as intermediary liability, data protection and privacy, AI, intellectual property, digital/audiovisual content, or digital market regulation, digital economy and trade.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**:- Develop and lead public policy campaigns across the full range of policy areas that impact Google and the web.- Monitor, research, and analyze current and relevant emerging public policy issues.- Build and drive a network of trade associations, industry partners, non-profit groups, and other stakeholders to support policies that will help create and maintain a user-focused online environment as well as an open Internet.- Prioritize and analyze incoming government requests, refer them to the appropriate teams within Google, suggest possible solutions, and manage follow-up through to resolution.- Engage directly with policymakers, industry players, think tanks, civil society and key opinion formers to shape policy and political dialogue on Google’s policy efforts and work closely with Legal, Communications, Marketing, and other teams across Google both locally and internationally to execute outreach programs on policy priorities.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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.