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Google Looks for 'Conservative Outreach' Manager After Trump Election Win
Google Looks for 'Conservative Outreach' Manager After Trump Election Win
by Mark Bergen
December 5, 2016 — 4:27 PM EST
For most of Silicon Valley, Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election win was jarring. Google is using its aftermath to burnish its bona fides in Trump's political orbit.
The Alphabet Inc. unit posted a job listing for a manager of "conservative outreach" on its policy team 10 days after the election. The company is searching for a Washington veteran to "tell Google’s story in an elevator or from a podium," according to the description on Google's career website.
"As a member of Google's Public Policy outreach team, you will act as Google’s liaison to conservative, libertarian and free market groups," the listing reads. "You are part organizer, part advocate and part policy wonk as you understand the world of third-party non-governmental advocacy organizations."
Google has hired former Republican operatives before and this job isn't new (the previous policy specialist in the role once worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign). But the listing suggests the internet giant is mobilizing to push its multi-faceted agenda with the incoming administration. Google is likely to voice positions on several key political issues, including data encryption, antitrust, telecom rules and autonomous vehicles. On several of them, Trump's policies are uncertain.
by Mark Bergen
December 5, 2016 — 4:27 PM EST
For most of Silicon Valley, Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election win was jarring. Google is using its aftermath to burnish its bona fides in Trump's political orbit.
The Alphabet Inc. unit posted a job listing for a manager of "conservative outreach" on its policy team 10 days after the election. The company is searching for a Washington veteran to "tell Google’s story in an elevator or from a podium," according to the description on Google's career website.
"As a member of Google's Public Policy outreach team, you will act as Google’s liaison to conservative, libertarian and free market groups," the listing reads. "You are part organizer, part advocate and part policy wonk as you understand the world of third-party non-governmental advocacy organizations."
Google has hired former Republican operatives before and this job isn't new (the previous policy specialist in the role once worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign). But the listing suggests the internet giant is mobilizing to push its multi-faceted agenda with the incoming administration. Google is likely to voice positions on several key political issues, including data encryption, antitrust, telecom rules and autonomous vehicles. On several of them, Trump's policies are uncertain.