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Project Manager, Alphabet Regulatory Response, Investigations, and Strategy
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working as a contracts manager, paralegal, or legal assistant.
- Experience in consulting, program management, or legal operations while focusing on project management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiar with government inquiries or litigation type matters.
- Ability to work through processes, remain organized, and manage complex matters/cases and multiple stakeholders under tight deadlines (e.g., trial, hearing preparation, etc.).
- Ability to understand the end goal and make connections across teams and issues.
- Ability to work proactively when anticipating issues and solving problems.
- Excellent business judgment, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and managing through influence.
About the job
In the growing tech industry, Google's fast-paced legal department is setting the pace for the rest of the industry to keep up. As a paralegal, you're at the center of the action of Google's dynamic Legal Team. You are a driving force behind the success of your Legal team, ready to roll up your sleeves and work collaboratively across the team to juggle deadlines, manage simultaneous projects on a variety of legal matters and jump in wherever needed to help your team. You have specialized legal knowledge and a bias toward action, getting things done which will influence some of the most defining legal cases in the information age.
As a Project Manager in the Government Inquiries Project Management Office (PMO), you will work closely with members of Alphabet’s Regulatory Response, Investigations and Strategy team (ARRIS). You'll act as the central project manager in orchestrating Google’s responses to inquiries made by regulatory agencies worldwide. You'll also partner with teams across Google and Alphabet’s Legal, Public Policy, and Finance business areas to support the issue management.
In this role, you will centralize coordination and governance and refine, design, and enforce process standards through project management support of individual matters. Additionally, you'll help build the enabling tools in partnership with Legal Operations and Engineering teams.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Legal Counsel, Product Teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize projects and build internal processes to facilitate knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to the project management, development, and implementation of processes around regulatory and legislative government inquiries, including intake, assessment of scope and tasks, investigation and execution of regulatory response, cross-functional stakeholder management, day-to-day operational support (e.g., discovery data/document support), and final submission approval.
- Identify bottlenecks and field escalations to stakeholders, and assist with providing internal recommendations
- Assist in and curate resources for the use of development and the enforcement of processes and best practices around government inquiry response and communication plans.
- Facilitate large, global, and cross-functional working groups. Influence a range of stakeholders, including executives.
