Head of Reputation and Responsibility Communications, YouTube
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 14 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or communications.
- 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision, or team leadership role.
- Experience with crisis management and campaign building.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience leading high performing teams.
- Expertise in delivering a full suite of communications tactics, including press briefings, events, social media campaigns, new media, and spokespeople management.
- Ability to influence and shape outcomes in cross-functional working groups.
- Ability to serve as a strategic advisor to senior business leadership.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
About the job
As a member of the Global Communications & Public Affairs team, you will work cross-functionally to help communicate with journalists and other thought leaders; devise specific communications materials and campaigns based on understanding of journalists' interests; engage in face-to-face meetings with commentators and other opinion formers; develop print and web-based material supporting these campaigns; and counter misinformation that might interfere with our business and ability to serve our users. We're looking for great communicators who can understand complex issues and explain them in person and also via well written, simple blog posts, FAQs, video scripts and more.
As a leader, you will keep your team on track with the overall strategy, giving them direction when it comes to specific product and business area decisions. You will also provide direct communications support for senior executives.
As the leader of the Reputation and Responsibility Communications Team, you will oversee our public communications around a range of critical verticals and issues including Trust and Safety, public policy, economic impact, crisis response, and AI responsibility. Managing a dispersed team across timezones and locations, you will help shape and deliver YouTube’s messages for executive journalists, policymakers, civil society groups and creators.
It's our job to help inform and educate users, advertisers, partners, opinion leaders--and our own employees--about the benefits of Google's products, our distinctive company culture/values, and our approach to the big public policy issues of the day. To succeed here, you'll combine creativity with organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines simultaneously, as well as enjoy pitching to journalists, bloggers and commentators, or producing internal communications and events for our employees. Things happen quickly at Google and to get stuff done here you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally and isn't hesitant to take risks or try new things.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $211,000-$297,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic communications counsel to senior stakeholders across Trust and Safety, product, public policy, legal and marketing.
- Craft concise and compelling reactive and proactive communications around YouTube’s responsibility efforts.
- Serve as a company spokesperson as needed. Cultivate and manage press relationships with executive reporters and editors at press outlets.
- Develop and execute strategic communication plans to highlight and defend YouTube’s reputational efforts and support legislative priorities of the Global Affairs and Public Policy team.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the company on core files that impact both YouTube and Google.
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