Communications Manager

Job Description

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 manager, you'll be responsible for a product area externally, or an executive or functional group internally. You'll act as a strategic partner, thoughtfully piecing together pitch ideas or weaving related materials into the larger business picture.

As a Communications Manager for YouTube Indonesia, you'll lead and develop communication strategies for our consumer and creator products as well as apps (i.e. YouTube Kids). You will also manage YouTube policy communications across Indonesia, developing and executing against communication plans that take on difficult challenges around controversial content, hate speech, and misinformation or other challenging issues. You will create connections with YouTube's regional team in APAC to drive awareness of both the challenges and opportunities in Indonesia.

We 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. You are quick-witted, entrepreneurial and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines. Things happen quickly at Google, and to do great work, you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally with partners across PR, Communications, Marketing, Product, and beyond.

Resonsibilities:
• Work with the in-country team to drive positive press coverage and overall awareness of YouTube's consumer and creator products across Indonesia.
• Manage press interest around controversial content, policy enforcement, and copyright on YouTube, including helping reporters understand how YouTube's Community Guidelines work, communicating the platform's policies, tools, and broader key messages to the press.
• Develop and maintain close, productive relationships with key journalists and influencers in tech, as well as teams across Google.
• Provide media training and real-time coaching during interviews to executives and spokespeople to effectively communicate key messages to audiences.
• Work with YouTube's Partnerships, Public Policy, Trust and Safety, Legal, and Product and Engineering teams to distill complex concepts into coherent and easy-to-understand communications material.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience in product and policy communications

Preferred qualifications:
• Experience working in a communications role (i.e. as an on the record spokesperson)
• Experience driving both creative storytelling around products
• Experience managing tough crises and escalations
• Familiarity with a range of policy challenges in the tech sector, such as content regulation and copyright

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rz62q7-3-144-93-73-42 in your application.