Industry Relations Manager

Google

4 - 6 years

Mumbai

Posted: 13/06/2025

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Political Science, International Relations, Public Relations or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience working within the advertising or tech industry in functions such as industry relations, partnerships, public policy or public relations
Experience working with C-level executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.
Experience managing agreements or partnerships.

Preferred qualifications:

10 years of experience within the advertising or tech industry in functions such as industry relations, partnerships, public policy, public relations, or management consulting.
Experience working with government, think tanks, public interest groups, technology industry groups, or corporate public policy organizations.
Familiarity with advertising, tech, and trade associations and deeper understanding of the business and public policy landscape facing Google and the digital advertising industry in India.
Entrepreneurial and a solutions driven mindset and proven ability as an effective public speaker and communicator.
Adept relationship builder capable of fostering trust externally.

About the job

Google's line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google's newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce.

The Global Partnerships organization is responsible for exploring new opportunities with Google's partners. Google’s Global Partnerships team works with a wide range of partners to bring the best of Google to power their business. The Global Partnerships team supports Google’s own Product teams with essential partnerships to help Google’s user experiences in advertising, Search, Assistant, Maps, Travel, Shopping, Payments and more. Teams create product-enabling partnerships, go-to-market strategies and incubate business growth for a variety of products.

Advertising Industry Relations is the team tasked with engaging, supporting and influencing the advertising industry at an ecosystem level, i.e. the most influential trade bodies, industry associations and regulators in the market.

Industry Relations is part of GCAS, supporting the goal to ‘shape the dialogue about the future of the industry’. As a function, Industry Relations does not promote any one individual Google team. We aim to represent Google to the advertising industry.

Our task is to support Google’s ads business, alongside the long-term success of the advertising industry. If our partners succeed, so do we.

The advertising industry does not normally craft cross-industry policies, standards or tools without considering Google, whether we’re present or not. We aim to be in the room, to listen to our stakeholders and to work in partnership to solve the biggest challenges.

We seek regular feedback from the industry, which we then feed through to our GCAS, Product, Policy, LCS Sales and Marketing teams, to help ensure our products, services and industry messaging work for all.

Responsibilities

Build and cultivate strategic relationships with industry associations, groups, regulators, think-tanks, and policy-shapers. Develop and implement joint partnership plans with industry bodies, understanding their goals and aligning to Google's objectives.
Monitor, research and surface emerging business, regulatory and competitive intel to Google’s Leadership to inform business decisions.
Execute IR’s strategy and priorities in India, ensuring full alignment with the global Industry Relations strategic vectors.Contribute to and shape content at industry events, including preparing briefing documents for Leadership.
Work cross-functionally, driving consensus to craft Google's perspective and actions on initiatives. Serve as an industry expert within your regional team, collaborating closely with internal policy teams on shared objectives and incident response.
Frame complex issues, providing clear structure to Google execs to navigate challenging situations.

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.