Manager, YouTube Business Public Policy
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience working on technology policy issues within government, think tanks, public interest groups, law, or relevant industry associations.
- Experience working with product and business teams.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience advising and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to design and deliver an exceptional work product.
- Knowledge of current and emerging global public policy trends relating to copyright, AI, music, and subscriptions.
- Ability to operate proactively in a fast-paced environment and a strong track record of executing cross-functional projects.
- Ability to exercise good judgment in a rapidly changing and sometimes stressful environment.
- Exceptional analytical skills, including assessing and negotiating regulatory or legislative proposals and texts.
- Excellent communication skills.
About the job
As a Business Policy Manager, you'll shape YouTube's policy efforts relating to business policy and emerging products. You will partner with YouTube’s Business teams including across partnerships, marketing, comms, and legal teams as well as Google’s global Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team to: execute YouTube’s policy strategy; develop our external narrative around key policy challenges; and advise business teams through the public policy lens. You'll develop, organize, manage, and communicate critical plans, initiatives, and strategy, while tracking various regulatory proposals and analyzing their potential impact on YouTube’s business.
You will be responsible for a global portfolio across a number of markets. You will help shape YouTube's policy efforts relating to the responsible development and deployment of new products, features, and policies related to copyright, AI, music and subscriptions products. You will also help shape pending regulations by educating stakeholders on YouTube’s policies, processes, and tools. You will need excellent analytical and organizational skills, the ability to communicate effectively in person and writing, an aptitude for learning, an ability to develop and implement creative ideas, and the discipline to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines. You will also bring experience working with or in government, NGOs, regulatory agencies, music publishing or licensing, or corporate public policy teams, as well as an ability to identify and gather insights and effectively communicate complex technology policy issues.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $181000 - $247000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Act as a thought leader in the Government Affairs and Public Policy function, working to influence and direct business priorities and translate them into a policy strategy.
- Anticipate and define government affairs and policy problems and craft custom solutions by researching and assessing varied approaches, leveraging new ideas.
- Advise senior executives on critical issues and manage the development and execution of policy strategy that have a direct impact on the future direction of government and policy programs at YouTube.
- Lead the integration of cross-functional or cross-organizational program timelines, drive program improvements and recommendations, and define operational goals and objectives.
- Lead process improvements, using expertise from inside and outside YouTube to influence application of concepts to new areas and challenge conventional wisdom and existing models.
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