News Lab Lead, Global Partnerships (English, Japanese) - Tokyo or Remote; Japan

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In-office locations: Tokyo, Japan.
Remote location(s): Japan.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience working in the media industry or similar content-driven industry.

• Ability to speak and write in English and Japanese.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using technology and online tools in innovative ways.
• Ability to manage several concurrent projects with goals.
• Excellent public speaking and organizational skills.

About the job

As The News Lab Lead, you’ll run an outreach effort to empower technology-driven storytelling in newsrooms, with a focus on efforts to strengthen quality journalism across the web and a partnership-focused approach to creating projects that foster unique innovations in newsrooms and startups. You’ll start conversations that support local journalism, fact-checking, diversity, equity, and inclusion across the ecosystem. Working with product teams, you’ll share insights from the journalism community to help improve our tools.

Responsibilities

• Build a pipeline of regular partnership outreach to media partners in the region, conducting regular tutorials that teach journalists how to use a range of digital tools. 
• Partner with journalism organizations, associations, and unions to hold joint technology training workshops.
• Hold community events that bring together entrepreneurs and journalists from a variety of organizations to work together around technologies for storytelling. 
• Develop partnerships with innovative organizations in the media and content space, leveraging Google technologies to deliver ways of sharing information that can be scaled to other partners.
• Create opportunities and avenues to help the media industry grow with Google.

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