Responsibilities

• Partner closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to proactively tell positive stories about our Payments technologies and their impact, and effectively manage issues.
• Support narrative development and PR strategies that showcase Payments products as providing a safe and secure way for people to pay and store every day essentials, spotlighting how Google’s innovations in AI are benefiting consumers and the payments ecosystem.
• Manage executive communications for Payments leaders, including developing social content and supporting thought leadership materials.
• Execute cross-commerce PR campaigns, supporting PR activations around culturally relevant shopping moments to elevate awareness of Google as a shopping authority.
• Ideate compelling stories and proactively pitch media and creators, using tools like internal data and consumer and industry trends to generate positive coverage for Google’s commerce products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 year of experience in public relations, media relations or communications within technology products or services.

Preferred

• Understanding of consumer technology, mainstream and payments media landscapes.
• Understanding of creators and ability to integrate them into broader PR strategies.
• Track record of contributing creative communications ideas and helping to bring them to life.
• Ability to work calmly, maintain good judgment, and execute effectively in changing, high-stress environments.
• Ability to execute both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) PR campaigns and events.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to distill complex technologies, data sets and trends into accessible, media-friendly stories.