Government Affairs Manager

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About the Organization

We build the world's most trusted public town square—and we pride ourselves on our commitment to protecting free speech within the boundaries of the law. Beyond that, we aim to increase unregretted user minutes on our platform, and make it the best place on the internet for creators to share content and make money.

Job Responsibilities

• You will lead X’s Global Government Affairs engagement across India.
• 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 free speech
• 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, to ensure our strategies are aligned with XFN interests.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

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 around the world, have a track record of being a strong leader and an accomplished strategist in legislative and regulatory fora. You are passionate about 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. You are an effective people manager with experience in motivating teams.  If this sounds like you, it’s likely you also possess ---

• A passion about the importance of protecting free speech.
• Subject matter expertise in one or more areas of online privacy, payments, safety, AI
• A University degree; or perhaps an advanced degree or two;
• An understanding of laws and regulation important to X and our users;
• Strong communications, writing and interpersonal skills;
• Reasonable fluency in social media and high technology;

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