Lead Ad Policy Specialist
Lead Ad Policy Specialist - Mountain View
Lead Ad Policy Specialist - Mountain View Mountain View, CA The area: Product Quality Operations The Product Quality Operations (PQO) team defends the integrity of Google, its users, and partners worldwide by defining and communicating product policies, fighting spam, fraud, and abuse across Google products. We are dedicated to protecting Google's brand and reputation and ensuring product quality to the company's expanding base of advertisers, publishers, and users in more than 40 languages on a global basis. We partner with our Product Managers and Engineers to fight fraud and abuse across a broad range of products such as Google Search, AdWords, AdSense, Checkout and Maps. This means that PQO team members need to be proactive, motivated, organized, responsible, innovative - and able to work well in a fast-paced, global, cross-functional, and team-oriented environment while demonstrating technical know-how, effective communication and getting things done. The role: Lead Ad Policy Specialist The Global AdWords Policy team's mission is to promote a positive experience for users, advertisers, partners and Googlers by developing and implementing fair and consistent policies and by working to protect the online safety of our users. As a Lead Policy Specialist, you will lead and drive high-level global cross-functional initiatives, including developing and launching new policies, and serving as the policy expert on cross-functional teams with Product, engineering, and Legal. You should have strong leadership, communication, project management and organizational skills. Responsibilities: * Identify gaps or conflicts proactively in existing policy framework, develop scalable solutions, and work to win consensus across the organization. * Collaborate with a cross-functional teams to develop and implement policies. * Drive awareness and understanding of policies across the company. * Innovate process and best practices for implementing policies across operation centers in multiple geographies. Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience). * 6 years of relevant work experience, including experience leading or implementing projects with cross-functional teams. Preferred Qualifications: * Master's Degree in related field. * 8 years relevant work experience, including experience with law or policy in the Internet industry in a fast-paced, professional environment. * Excellent leadership, organization, communication, and interpersonal skills. * Demonstrated ability to utilize data in making decisions or to support a position.