Head of Economic Policy Research

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Company: Google
Location: San Francisco, CA 94105 (Financial District area)

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Note: By applying to this position your application is automatically submitted to the following locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Washington, DC, USA

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 14 years of experience working on economic policy issues within government, think tanks, public interest groups or relevant industry associations.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Economics.
  • Experience in economic policy issues, including conducting economic analysis of policy issues.
  • Experience working with diverse international teams and a variety of stakeholders and executing strategies to deliver exceptional solutions.
  • Familiarity with Internet technologies and the corresponding policy environments.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills.

About the job

As a member of Google’s Government Affairs and Public Policy team, you’ll be part of a diverse global government affairs team, working across regions, product areas, and functions. You’ll combine creativity and intellectual rigor with the organizational skills to manage various campaigns, projects and initiatives. In this role, you’ll advocate for Google to bring external perspectives back into the company to inform our perception and direction. You’re passionate about the opportunity to shape the future of how we use and build technology for everyone.

As Head of Economic Policy Research, you will lead Google’s public policy work around economic transformation issues. You will also lead our work to assess the economic dimensions of Google’s key policy issues.

You have a diverse economics background, fluency in economic policy issues and a good understanding of technology policy issues. You also have excellent analytical and organizational skills, the ability to communicate effectively in person and in 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 bring experience interacting with economic policymakers, academics and other stakeholders at executive levels and will be able to identify and gather insights and effectively communicate complex technology policy issues.

Google takes its responsibilities seriously, including engaging with government and other stakeholders on important public policy challenges. The Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) team leads the company’s engagement with executive branch officials, legislators, regulators and third-parties in the formation of public policy. Working closely with Google leaders, GAPP seeks to identify key policy issues, listen carefully to others’ views and opinions, and distill and share the company’s perspective on those issues with external stakeholders. While we focus on challenges affecting the internet, our issue areas are increasingly broad and encompass many areas where public policy, business, and technology intersect.


Responsibilities

  • Analyze Google’s impact on economies, industries and labor markets and articulate those impacts to policymakers.
  • Develop ideas on how governments, businesses and others can work together to seize the opportunities and address the challenges of digital economic transformation and develop and lead policy programming to disseminate those ideas.
  • Assess the economic dimensions of Google’s key policy issues.
  • Work with think tanks, academics and other third-parties to develop analysis on digital economic transformation issues.
  • Engage directly with policymakers and key opinion formers, including at key economic policy institutions, at executive levels.

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