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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; engage in face-to-face meetings with commentators and other opinion formers; and develop print and web-based material supporting these campaigns. 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 Communications Manager, you will be responsible for managing communications around our business platforms, consumer products, and the competitive landscape in which we operate. You will work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams and will partner with media outlets and influencers, showing how we help others to grow and succeed.
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.
Responsibilities
- Develop close, productive relationships with journalists, social influencers, key partners, and influencers in tech, business, and mainstream press across the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on Saudi Arabia. Think creatively, take smart risks, and address tough issues as they arise.
- Develop written materials including story pitches, messaging guidelines, press releases, Q&As, presentations, and speeches.
- Collaborate with Product, Sales, Marketing, and other teams across Google to create compelling communication strategies that show the usefulness and key benefits of our advertising and consumer products.
- Represent Google as a company spokesperson for a wide variety of media and blogger inquiries. Assist with all communications activities in the Middle East and North Africa, including Saudi Arabia.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications:
- Experience in communications within a business, media, non-profit, or similar environment.
- Experience working within the traditional media and digital landscape in Saudi Arabia.
- Ability to communicate in Arabic and English fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills and ability to tailor messages to the right audiences.
- Excellent thought-leadership, relationship building, and management skills with internal stakeholders and external partners.
About the Company
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.