European Government Affairs Manager
Location: Dublin, London or Paris (onsite)
Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!
Who We Are :
The Global Government Affairs team acts as X’s ambassadors to government policymakers, regulators, and civil society groups on key public policy issues. We focus on addressing issues such as protecting freedom of expression, privacy, online safety, competitive markets and emerging regulation to advance the interests of X and our users.
What You’ll Do :
You will support X’s Global Government Affairs engagement across European markets, developing and maintaining relationships with governments, lawmakers, regulators, civil society and any key stakeholders for X, advocating for the company in these markets, and working closely with X’s Europe Global Government Affairs team on strategic engagement at the European level as well as towards the EU institutions.
This will be an opportunity to actively assist in the development and advocacy of public policy solutions to pressing high technology issues. Specifically, you will:
- Lead the development of legislative and regulatory strategies on high-profile, high-tech public policy issues, including contributing to content for internal and external messaging, and then driving toward successful implementation of these strategies.
- Meet with key government, political, and civil society representatives to help them understand X and advance policies beneficial to X and our users.
- Identify opportunities for X to defend freedom of expression and to showcase X’s work on online safety.
- Monitor public policy issues of importance to X, and help determine when proactive engagement is wise and warranted.
- Represent X at industry gatherings and coalition meetings, speak publicly on policy panels at events and conventions.
- Develop a strong network of contacts with third-party public interest groups engaged in technology policy issues.
- Provide front-line support on issues requiring engagement, solving problems, and escalating to internal colleagues as needed.
- Ensure the high-quality preparation of presentation materials for engagement with policymakers, regulators, and lawmakers.
- Work closely with leaders from other functions, especially legal, legal compliance and safety to ensure our strategies are aligned with XFN interests.
Who You Are:
We’re looking for a person with exquisite judgment who combines significant experience in politics, public policy and technology. You will have deep expertise and understanding of X’s regulatory and political environment, have a track record of being a strong leader and an accomplished strategist in legislative and regulatory fora.
You are comfortable engaging with Governments and regulators at the highest levels, in both public and private settings. You are capable of fashioning strategies for thorny public policy issues and seeing them through to successful implementation. You understand the value and purpose of engaging with a broad stakeholder community and their relation to public policy strategies.
If this sounds like you, it’s likely you also possess:
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- A passion about the importance of protecting freedom of expression online and knowledge of content governance issues.
- University Degree or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in English and one other European language.
- An understanding of laws and regulation in Europe on digital and important to X and its users.
- Strong communications and interpersonal skills.
- Reasonable fluency in social media and high technology.
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