Remote Government Affairs Manager Jobs
Remote Government Affairs Manager jobs are open across the US at companies hiring remotely, from entry-level roles at remote-first startups to senior roles on large distributed teams, with employers like ZipLine, GEICO, and Fivetran hiring right now. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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INTRODUCTION
From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Fivetran is a leading automation data integration platform, enabling businesses to centralize, secure and transform data. Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
As AI and AI policy develop in real time, securing the movement of data has never been more important or urgent.
We're looking for a VP of Government Affairs to drive this critical technology policy and articulate Fivetran's role at the center of it.
In this role you will build and lead Fivetran's government relations function as a single-threaded owner. Reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer, this role will define and execute the company's strategy across lobbying, political engagement, and public policy—ensuring Fivetran is proactively shaping the regulatory and political landscape in which it operates.
This is a highly strategic, externally facing role responsible for influencing policy outcomes, building relationships with key decision-makers, and coordinating company-wide engagement on government affairs. You will partner closely with executive leadership, including the CEO, to elevate Fivetran's presence in policy discussions and navigate complex regulatory and competitive dynamics.
This is a full-time work from home position based out of Washington, D.C. with travel as needed.
TECHNOLOGIES YOU'LL USE
- Policy and regulatory tracking tools (e.g., FiscalNote, Quorum)
- CRM and stakeholder engagement platforms
- Data analysis tools to assess regulatory and policy impact
- Collaboration tools (Slack, Google Workspace)
- Legal and compliance research platforms
- AI tools (e.g., ClaudeAI, ChatGPT, Gemini)
- Build and own Fivetran's government affairs and political strategy from the ground up
- Design and execute a comprehensive lobbying and policy engagement strategy aligned with company priorities
- Develop and manage Fivetran's political engagement strategy, including campaign contributions, PAC/C4 alignment, and external political relationships
- Establish and maintain relationships with policymakers, regulators, trade associations, and industry coalitions
- Lead development of Fivetran's policy positions, including drafting briefs, comment letters, and external communications
- Deploy an AI-enabled policy function to track legislative and regulatory developments in the data, AI, privacy, competition/antitrust and technology landscapes, identify and engage stakeholders, and generate engagement strategies and policy positioning to disseminate actionable recommendations across the organization
- Support regulatory strategy, investigations and potential litigation efforts
- Identify and mitigate policy or regulatory risks, including those driven by competitors or market dynamics
- Act as the quarterback for all government affairs-related communications and engagement, ensuring alignment across Legal, Communications, and executive leadership
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, political strategy, or related fields
- Proven track record of building and leading government affairs or policy functions, ideally in tech or a highly regulated industry
- Deep expertise in U.S. political and regulatory systems, including lobbying, campaign finance, and policy development
- Strong network across U.S. Federal, State and local policymakers, regulators, and political stakeholders
- Experience advising senior executives and orchestrating high-level government engagement
- Ability to operate independently as a founding leader of the function in a fast moving, build-from-scratch environment
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, including experience shaping policy narratives and external positioning
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as political science, government or equivalent experience. JD, MPP/MPA also welcome, but not required.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran's culture and what it's like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.
INTRODUCTION
From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Fivetran is a leading automation data integration platform, enabling businesses to centralize, secure and transform data. Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
As AI and AI policy develop in real time, securing the movement of data has never been more important or urgent.
We're looking for a VP of Government Affairs to drive this critical technology policy and articulate Fivetran's role at the center of it.
In this role you will build and lead Fivetran's government relations function as a single-threaded owner. Reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer, this role will define and execute the company's strategy across lobbying, political engagement, and public policy—ensuring Fivetran is proactively shaping the regulatory and political landscape in which it operates.
This is a highly strategic, externally facing role responsible for influencing policy outcomes, building relationships with key decision-makers, and coordinating company-wide engagement on government affairs. You will partner closely with executive leadership, including the CEO, to elevate Fivetran's presence in policy discussions and navigate complex regulatory and competitive dynamics.
This is a full-time work from home position based out of Washington, D.C. with travel as needed.
TECHNOLOGIES YOU'LL USE
- Policy and regulatory tracking tools (e.g., FiscalNote, Quorum)
- CRM and stakeholder engagement platforms
- Data analysis tools to assess regulatory and policy impact
- Collaboration tools (Slack, Google Workspace)
- Legal and compliance research platforms
- AI tools (e.g., ClaudeAI, ChatGPT, Gemini)
- Build and own Fivetran's government affairs and political strategy from the ground up
- Design and execute a comprehensive lobbying and policy engagement strategy aligned with company priorities
- Develop and manage Fivetran's political engagement strategy, including campaign contributions, PAC/C4 alignment, and external political relationships
- Establish and maintain relationships with policymakers, regulators, trade associations, and industry coalitions
- Lead development of Fivetran's policy positions, including drafting briefs, comment letters, and external communications
- Deploy an AI-enabled policy function to track legislative and regulatory developments in the data, AI, privacy, competition/antitrust and technology landscapes, identify and engage stakeholders, and generate engagement strategies and policy positioning to disseminate actionable recommendations across the organization
- Support regulatory strategy, investigations and potential litigation efforts
- Identify and mitigate policy or regulatory risks, including those driven by competitors or market dynamics
- Act as the quarterback for all government affairs-related communications and engagement, ensuring alignment across Legal, Communications, and executive leadership
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 12+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, political strategy, or related fields
- Proven track record of building and leading government affairs or policy functions, ideally in tech or a highly regulated industry
- Deep expertise in U.S. political and regulatory systems, including lobbying, campaign finance, and policy development
- Strong network across U.S. Federal, State and local policymakers, regulators, and political stakeholders
- Experience advising senior executives and orchestrating high-level government engagement
- Ability to operate independently as a founding leader of the function in a fast moving, build-from-scratch environment
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, including experience shaping policy narratives and external positioning
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as political science, government or equivalent experience. JD, MPP/MPA also welcome, but not required.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran's culture and what it's like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote government affairs manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in public policy, political science, law, or a related field
- Direct experience working with federal, state, or local legislative or regulatory bodies
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with elected officials and their staff
- Strong written communication skills including policy memos, regulatory comments, and executive briefings
- Experience managing outside lobbyists, trade association memberships, or advocacy coalitions
- Familiarity with lobbying disclosure requirements and compliance under federal or state ethics rules
Tips for Your Remote Government Affairs Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to policy outcomes
Government affairs hiring managers want to see what you actually moved, not just what you monitored. Rewrite your bullet points to show legislation influenced, regulations shaped, or coalitions built, and name the specific policy areas you worked in.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists government affairs manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target employers by their regulatory exposure
Companies facing active rulemaking or pending legislation hire government affairs managers with urgency. Prioritize openings at firms in industries currently under congressional scrutiny or agency review, where your timing and subject-matter knowledge will carry the most weight.
Prepare a concrete legislative win for interviews
Most government affairs interviews include a behavioral question about influence. Walk in with one specific example: a bill you tracked from introduction to passage, an amendment you helped shape, or a regulatory comment you drafted that got a response.
Highlight your cross-functional communication skills
Government affairs managers translate policy risk for executives and legal teams who are not policy experts. On your resume and in interviews, show how you briefed senior leaders, wrote executive summaries of regulatory developments, or aligned internal stakeholders on a public affairs strategy.
Negotiate your title and scope, not just pay
In government affairs, your access and seniority determine what meetings you get into. Before accepting an offer, ask which executives you will brief directly, whether you will represent the company externally, and how the role is positioned relative to lobbyists or outside counsel.
Remote Government Affairs Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote government affairs manager job?
Target companies that already run distributed teams, since they hire remotely by default and know how to onboard someone they never meet in person. Remote government affairs manager employers screen hard for self-direction and clear written communication on top of the core skills, so show evidence you can own work without someone over your shoulder. Apply to the openings above that match your experience.
Which companies hire remote government affairs managers?
Companies hiring remote government affairs managers include ZipLine, GEICO, and Fivetran, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first firms and large companies running distributed teams post the most remote government affairs manager roles.
Can you get a remote government affairs manager job with no experience?
Yes, but it is harder than an on-site role, because remote work expects you to operate independently from the start. Entry-level remote government affairs manager openings do exist, especially at remote-first companies, and a portfolio of real work helps more than a long resume. Applying broadly to the roles that fit improves your odds.
Do you need a degree for remote government affairs manager jobs?
Not always. Many employers hire remote government affairs managers on demonstrated skills and prior work rather than a specific degree, though some larger companies still prefer one. Showing relevant results matters more than a credential for most remote government affairs manager roles.
Which industries hire the most remote government affairs managers?
Remote government affairs manager roles concentrate in Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Logistics, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors run distributed teams and hire government affairs managers remotely most consistently.
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