Communications and Public Affairs Manager (English, Vietnamese)
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in public relations, media relations, or communications.
- Ability to communicate in Vietnamese and English fluently to manage communications and written materials.
Preferred qualifications:
- Ability to think, plan and execute multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work and maintain good decisions in fluid environments and the ability to escalate issues appropriately.
- Ability to tailor messages to the right audiences, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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.
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
- Lead all external communications activities in Vietnam and represent Google as a company spokesperson for a wide variety of media inquiries.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, sales, and marketing teams to create communication strategies that illustrate the functionality and key benefits of our consumer and advertising products.
- Develop close, productive relationships with journalists, social influencers, product reviewers and other key stakeholders in Vietnam.
- Develop written materials, including story pitches, messaging guidelines, press releases, questions and answers, presentations and speeches.
- Manage a Public Relation (PR) agency to help support day-to-day press and stakeholder inquiries, special projects, and events.
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