Lead Google Cloud’s policy and government affairs strategy for assigned regional states, managing relationships with state and local policymakers and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to advance public policy and technical infrastructure goals.
Develop and lead Google Cloud's policy and government affairs strategy for assigned regional states.
Manage and coordinate a network of contract lobbyists and public affairs firms to advance proactive policy engagement.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with governors’ offices, state legislators, local elected officials, state agencies, local permitting authorities, and trade associations.
Shape and advance the company’s positions on key issues, including government procurement, energy, tax policy, permitting, and infrastructure development.
Track and analyze legislation, regulation, and local policy trends that could affect the company’s operations, investment, or growth.
Advance Stripe’s priorities in Brussels through effective advocacy and strong relationships with policymakers, focusing on EU legislative and regulatory debates in payments/financial services or technology policy.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute EU advocacy strategies for an agreed portfolio of issues, setting clear objectives, identifying opportunities to shape the policy making process.
Build and maintain relationships across the EU institutions, developing a strong network of policymakers, officials and advisers.
Represent Stripe directly in policy discussions, making clear, persuasive arguments grounded in our business, our users’ experiences and the needs of Europe’s digital economy.
Bring deep subject expertise to Stripe’s advocacy in either payments and financial services or technology policy, while building the knowledge needed to engage effectively across a broad waterfront of issues.
Work closely with Policy Strategy, Legal, Product and Go-To-Market colleagues to develop and refine advocacy positions, drawing on their expertise and ensuring our engagement reflects commercial and technical realities, and the needs of our users.
Requirements
Nice to have: Experience working in a high-growth, rapidly scaling environment
Nice to have: Industry experience working in technology, payments, merchant or financial services
Nice to have: Experience in the other policy domain: technology policy for a payments and financial services specialist, or payments and financial services policy for a technology specialist
Help create our policy research agenda, understand the novel impacts and challenges of our technical direction, and turn promising ideas into concrete policy frameworks and experiments that can be used by our technical teams and the industry more broadly.
Compensation
Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $240,000 - $360,000 USD.
Responsibilities
Develop our policy research agenda in collaboration with leadership and technical teams
Help set our views proactively on a variety of policy topics, including long-term safety, societal impacts, and future legislation
Analyze existing AI policy proposals to identify the gaps we are best positioned to fill
Produce internal and public-facing policy research that introduces new frameworks and gives others a foundation to build on
Build relationships with think tanks, policy organizations, and academic AI governance communities
Requirements
A degree in history, politics, economics, international affairs, artificial intelligence, or a related discipline
Nice to have: Authored independent publications that generated significant discourse in the AI governance community
Nice to have: A deep technical understanding of AI
Nice to have: Experience collaborating across academic, industry, and nonprofit policy communities
Nice to have: Worked on open weights safety or policy
A technical advisor role serving governments, AI Safety Institutes (AISIs), and multilateral institutions, helping them understand, test, and apply frontier AI systems to public missions.
Locations (2)
San Francisco, California, United States
New York City, New York, United States
Compensation
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range...
Annual Salary: $240,000—$315,000 USD
Responsibilities
Act as a primary technical advisor for senior officials in partner governments, AISIs, and international institutions.
Brief them on frontier AI capabilities, give an honest account of both benefits and harms, and explain safety research in terms that inform their decisions.
Partner closely with the Policy team to understand each partner's goals and requirements.
Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that show how Claude can support their public missions, such as cyber defense.
Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies.
Nice to have: Knowledge of the business landscape and experience with relevant business associations in the EU
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