Government seeks official to manage relationship with tech titans Salary of almost £70k on offer for head of Big Tech Strategic Engagement Unit Buildings in California's Silicon Valley region Credit: Patrick Nouhailler/CC BY-SA 2.0 10 May 2021 A recruitment process is underway for a senior executive to “manage the government’s relationship with the world’s most powerful technology companies”. An annual salary of up to £68,310 is on offer for a role heading up the Big Tech Strategic Engagement Unit that sits within the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The position will be “both policy- and engagement-focused”, according to the job advert, and comes with responsibility for setting the overall strategic direction of the unit in its work to “determine and develop the broader relationship HM Government should have with big tech”. The postholder will also oversee the work of six people, with direct line-managing responsibility for half of those.