Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 2 years of legal experience within a law firm or in-house legal department.
Preferred qualifications: Experience querying datasets using SQL and building dashboards.
Experience anticipating issues and solving problems.
Experience in government inquiries or litigation type matters.
Ability to manage matters/cases and multiple stakeholders under tight deadlines (e.g., trial, hearing preparation, etc.).
Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity, manage and prioritize multiple timelines and projects in an ambiguous environment.
Ability to make connections across teams and issues, with excellent business judgment and strategic thinking skills.
About the job
In this role, you will work closely with members of Alphabet's Regulatory Response Investigations and Strategy team (ARRIS), and act as the central project manager in orchestrating Google's responses to inquiries made by regulatory agencies worldwide. You will also partner with teams across Google and Alphabet's Legal, Public Policy, Finance, and product areas to support the handling of some of the most important issues for the company today. The Project Management Organization(PMO) will do this by centralizing coordination and governance, refining, designing, and enforcing process standards through project management support of individual matters, and building 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 drive tasks, share information, and implement project management principles upon our largest and most complex matters (including litigation, internal investigations and regulatory requests).
Identify opportunities for process improvement initiatives and knowledge management projects and, where appropriate, help develop and socialize best practices.
Identify bottlenecks and field escalations to stakeholders, and assist with providing internal recommendations.
Facilitate large, global, cross-functional working groups and influence a broad range of stakeholders including executives.
Facilitate critical decision making while also managing timelines.