Strategic Engagement Lead, Social

Legal
USA
March 20, 2026
FULL_TIME

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    March 20, 2026
  • Location
    USA
  • Expiration date
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Job Description

2026-03-18T10:31:44.197Z

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Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or communications.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with rapid response, crisis communications or corporate/policy communications.
  • Experience working in social media; or an understanding of the nuanced role social can play within a communications strategy and function.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.

About the job

As a member of the Global Communications and 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 issues and explain them in person and also via well written, simple blog posts, FAQs, video scripts and more.

As the Strategic Engagement Lead for the Global Communications and Public Afffairs Social Team, you will be responsible for shifting social media presence from ad hoc response to a systematic engagement model.

Your role sits at the center of two important focuses for the communications function that is being social first and shifting to always-on campaigning. You will leverage your communications intuition and issues management skills to use social as a proactive channel to advance key narratives and campaigns.

You will help define the high-level goal for how Google engages with the social community on reputational topics, and ensure that goal can be executed. You will develop or co-develop processes and tools to enable scalable engagement and rapid response on critical topics.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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $171,000-$248,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a playbook for engagement to ensure Global Communications and Public Affairs (GCPA) has a clear set of principles and processes for when and how to engage on social media on reputation issues, both proactively and reactively.
  • Lead rapid response within the communications social team, serving as the primary point of contact for crisis response while advising communication teams on appropriate responses using communications expertise and data.
  • Co-develop tools for issue detection and rapid response, and streamline existing processes by working with cross-functional teams to inform new measurement and listening tools for detecting issues and proactive opportunities and acting on them, while co-establishinhg and raising awareness of signals, benchmarks, and processes we can use to inform decision-making; measure the rate of response to alerts and track overall effectiveness.
  • Shape the proactive News from Google strategy on X and other platforms, focusing on key campaign areas and reputational issues, in co-ordination with the rest of the social team.

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.

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