Responsibilities

• Shape coverage around regulatory files and issues that directly impact YouTube through proactive campaigns and rapid response comms.
• Build relationships with key data center based press and third-party stakeholders to advance YouTube’s reputational efforts and support legislative priorities of the public policy team.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in public policy, legal, and marketing to manage press coverage, events, public testimony and reporter briefings.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Global Communications and Public Affairs (GCPA) on core files that impact both YouTube and Google.
• Coordinate global communications responses to regulatory issues that span different regions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in public relations, media relations, public affairs or corporate communications.
• Experience with communications related to company, operational, or reputational issues.

Preferred

• Experience driving policy-focused media campaigns and shaping coverage.
• Experience planning and executing integrated and scalable media campaigns.
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to translate complex findings into simple, clear and intuitive communications.
• Track record of relevant media contacts, including new media, and fluency in the current media/social landscape.