Communications Manager

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 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.
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