Google is said to eye former Clinton aide for top policy job

The Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Dreamstime)

Alphabet Inc’s Google has reached out to Jake Sullivan, a former deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, in its search for a new head of international policy, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Sullivan is one of more than a dozen contenders and the discussions may not result in a job offer, one of the people said. Google’s search comes as the tech giant and its peers wrestle with the best strategies to deal with regulatory threats in Europe, a Republican-controlled Congress and a White House that’s suspicious of the industry’s rising power.