Google Looks for 'Conservative Outreach' Manager After Trump Election Win
The Google Inc. logo hangs illuminated at the company's exhibition stand at the Dmexco digital marketing conference in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Dmexco is a two-day global business and digital economy innovation platform, attracting the industry's most important personalities and corporate decision-makers.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergFor 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.