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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with digital publishing, social media channels and influencers, and creating digital content and distribution strategies
- Ability to speak and write in Arabic and English fluently
Preferred qualifications:
- Ability to approach tasks in a collaborative fashion as part of a team, and to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to promote new ideas in an exciting but practical way with a creative imagination
- Ability to think strategically and to learn quickly
- Excellent attention to detail and a well organized, structured approach to work
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 Communication Manager, you will help Google tell our stories in creative ways, reaching people directly with our own content through digital platforms. You will be a creative multi-platform storyteller, as well as, a digital content strategist. You will be responsible to define the communications team’s approach to social media and other digital platforms as well as expanding our ability to produce and distribute content. You will partner with marketing, editorial, measurement, and operations specialists in order to help the Communications team effectively use digital platforms in their campaigns, measure their impact, and grow their reach.
In this role, you will work closely with our central social and editorial teams as well as with local functions like Marketing to help develop content for a variety of platforms, including written and multimedia formats such as social media posts, blog posts, illustrations, data visualizations, gifs, videos, podcasts, newsletter, and other emerging formats for new platforms.
It’s our job to 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. To succeed here, you’ll combine creativity with organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines simultaneously, as well as enjoy pitching to journalists, bloggers and commentators, or producing internal communications and events for our employees. Things happen quickly at Google and to get stuff done here you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally and isn’t hesitant to take risks or try new things.
Responsibilities
- Drive innovation and creativity in the format, approach, outputs, and tone of communications across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with a focus on social media, and owned and operated channels across product and corporate communications.
- Understand key social trends and insights in the region and share with the communications team and other internal stakeholders.
- Refine our digital platforms strategy, including our approach to social media in partnership with our marketing, editorial, and measurement and insights teams.
- Develop creative content for communications campaigns and moments as well as reactive social media posts with a quick turnaround with the help of internal partners and outside agencies.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
