Director, Communications and Public Affairs, India

Google

5 - 10 years

Gurugram

Posted: 15/11/2025

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Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
15 years of professional communications experience in a business and media environment.
Experience serving as a communications partner to senior executives and leadership teams.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in working with consumer technology at a multi-product company as a senior communications leader.
Management experience in large multinational enterprises.
Solid understanding of consumer and ad tech and policy landscape, including artificial intelligence, privacy, and security.
A proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams.
Ability to communicate in English fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

About the job

As a member of the Global Communications & Public Affairs team, you will work cross-functionally to help communicate with journalists and other thought leaders; devise specific communications materials and campaigns; engage in face-to-face meetings with commentators and other opinion formers; and develop print and web-based material supporting these campaigns. We're looking for great communicators who can understand complex issues and explain them in person and also via well written, simple blog posts, FAQs, video scripts and more.

As Google’s Director of Communications, you will be expected to drive an integrated comms strategy internally and externally, manage and grow a team of communications professionals, work cross-functionally to communicate with journalists and other thought leaders, and devise specific communications materials and campaigns.

You’ll lead a team in telling clear stories about our products, distinctive company culture/values, and our approach to big policy issues affecting us and our industry.

You’ll manage numerous projects at once, from preparing concise written materials that communicate key messages, to managing multi-product campaigns and budgets, agency partners and maintain relationships with senior editors and international media outlets.

As a key member of Google India management team you will work with senior sales, product, policy, legal and marketing leads to help set a clear narrative and strategy for people to have a clear understanding of our business.

We help inform and educate users, advertisers, partners, opinion leaders--and our own employees--about the benefits of Google's products, our distinctive company culture/values and our approach to the big public policy issues of the day. You are quick-witted, entrepreneurial and intellectually curious. To succeed in this role, you are willing to try new things and can manage numerous projects with tight deadlines. Things happen quickly at Google, and to do great work, you need to be an enthusiastic team player who can work cross-functionally with partners across PR, Communications, Marketing, Product, and beyond.

Responsibilities

Create long-term multi-channel communications and storytelling campaigns about our products and projects.
Develop close, productive relationships with editors, creators, influencers, product reviewers and our key partners in India.
Train and provide advice to executives and senior leaders for press conferences, media interviews, and manage PR agencies to help support day-to-day inquiries, special projects, event inquiries, and events.
Lead and develop a team of experienced communicators and manage team budgets and operational strategy.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.