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Manager, Strategic Communications, Sustainability Advocacy

Google, San Francisco, CA, United States


Benefits

Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

Sick Time: 40 hours per year (increased to 69 hours per year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Qualified applicants 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.

You can specify your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

2 years of experience in program or project management.

Preferred Qualifications

3 years of experience in communications and storytelling.

Experience managing the development and execution of high‑visibility content focused on sustainability topics.

Ability to understand highly technical sustainability concepts and translate them into compelling narratives and polished written and multimedia content.

Excellent process and programme management capabilities and subject‑matter expert in sustainability.

About the Job
As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi‑disciplinary projects from start to finish—working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross‑functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It’s your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

As a Program Manager for Strategic Communications in our Sustainability Advocacy team, you will drive operational aspects of the communications and storytelling pipeline, internal alignment, coordination and communication, and support development of written and multimedia materials aimed at external audiences, ensuring that our work is well understood by external stakeholders and that we are using Google’s voice to drive broader, ecosystem‑level impact.

In this role, you will collaborate across a variety of internal teams at Google working on sustainability, policy, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities

Manage a strategic communications calendar to maintain a steady drumbeat of storytelling, ensuring consistent visibility of Google’s environmental milestones.

Drive the execution of cross‑functional processes, streamlining how content is vetted, refined, and approved by technical and legal subject‑matter experts.

Scope and produce high‑impact written and multimedia content that distills Google’s sustainability initiatives into accessible, engaging stories and narratives for global external audiences.

Maintain a scalable narrative repository of all internal content assets.

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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