Government Relations Manager
Overview:
Hey there sleezeball! No we don’t want you to have an affair with the government! But a liason or coordinator or someone to help us treat the government right and work as easily as possible with them would be helpful. We’re not looking for someone to manage lobbyists and send us updates. We’re looking for someone who builds the machine. We do a LOT of work with lots of different government agencies. We could use some help coordinating with them. Is that something you’d like to do?
Wage:
$180,000/year
Benefits:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
- Annual review with raise option
- 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
- After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
- The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
- Quarterly allowance
- Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
- Open concept office with friendly coworkers
- Creative environment where you can make a difference
- No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
- Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah
Responsibilities:
- Talk to 300ish government agencies regularly
- Direct our lobbyists
- Craft our strategy towards working with governments, not against them
- Do what government affairs and government relations people do
Still following along and want to apply?
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Requirements:
- Proven team builder. Demonstrated experience hiring, leading, and developing an internal government relations function. Experience limited to managing outside lobbying firms alone is not sufficient.
- Effective advocate and relationship builder. Ability to advance policy objectives assertively while maintaining strong, trusted relationships with legislators, regulators, and legislative staff.
- Deep understanding of legislative and regulatory processes. Familiarity with the real mechanics of policy making including committees, amendments, regulatory engagement, coalitions, and legislative timing. Experience with model law ecosystems such as the Uniform Law Commission is a plus.
- Strategic policy thinker. Demonstrated ability to develop long-term policy strategy, anticipate legislative developments, and execute multi-step advocacy plans.
- Credible presence with policymakers. Proven ability to represent an organization effectively in meetings with legislators, regulators, and other government stakeholders.
- Experience leading or coordinating multi-state legislative or regulatory policy campaigns.
Why you might like this job:
You like people. You love solving problems. You like making people happy instead of pissing them off. Some might call it greasing the wheels…. We might call it making sure the wheels are all still on the bus.
We help over 5 million businesses in the US start and maintain their businesses. We want to do our part to make that as easy for our customers as possible. It should excite you to help so many potential businesses