Manager, AI Policy, Trust Strategy and Operations

About the job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

The Strategic Response for Emerging Regulations team is responsible for developing strategies that uphold Google’s values around user trust in response to emerging regulations.

As a Manager on the Trust Strategy team, you will be at the forefront of shaping how Google's Knowledge and Information (K&I) products navigate complex AI policy, ecosystem, and regulatory challenges. Serving as a technical subject matter expert, you will co-design scalable product solutions that advance Google’s product objectives.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Drive horizontal strategy at the intersection of product development and AI policy, translating external policy, ecosystem, and regulatory developments into actionable K&I product requirements, technical standards, and design principles.
  
• Bridge the gap between K&I product teams and Policy/Legal partners by translating complex product plans and technical architectures (across areas such as security, agentic products, content access, chatbots) to inform external engagement and advocacy.
  
• Partner directly with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Legal teams to resolve complex product-policy trade-offs and ensure product roadmaps and policy frameworks evolve in lockstep.
  
• Provide technical guidance to internal product teams, policymakers, and internet standards bodies on AI concepts, web protocols, and technical controls.
  
• Serve as a trusted advisor to K&I and cross-functional executive leadership, delivering analyses, risk assessments, and actionable recommendations to drive high-stakes product/policy decisions.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, policy, or research.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Experience working with product and engineering teams.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 11 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, policy, or research.
• Experience working with and analyzing data, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
  

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