Stakeholder Engagement Manager Jobs
Stakeholder Engagement Manager jobs are open across government, healthcare, nonprofit, and corporate sectors, with specializations in community relations, public affairs, and change management, at every level from coordinator to director. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Visa is seeking a highly organized Senior Manager, Global Government Affairs to manage and coordinate the company's executive engagement with key third-party organizations, trade associations, think tanks, policy forums, and other external stakeholders. This role will provide the operational discipline needed to ensure executive engagements are well planned, aligned with established business and policy priorities, and executed with excellence.
The successful candidate will combine strong program and project management capabilities with sound judgment, executive briefing experience, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. This individual will coordinate across senior leaders and partner teams, manage sensitive and confidential information, and deliver consistent processes, materials, and follow-through for external engagements.
The role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional who can manage multiple priorities and model the Visa Leadership Principles in all aspects of their work.
Key Responsibilities:
Executive Engagement and Stakeholder Coordination:
- Coordinate Visa's participation in trade associations, industry groups, policy organizations, and other third-party stakeholders in support of approved business and policy priorities.
- Manage the preparation, logistics, and follow-through for executive participation in external boards, councils, committees, conferences, and industry forums.
- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for internal partners and external organizations, coordinating schedules, materials, deadlines, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
- Monitor relevant developments, requests, and opportunities from external organizations and route them to the appropriate internal teams.
- Maintain accurate records of executive memberships, leadership positions, key contacts, engagement history, commitments, and deliverables.
- Anticipate upcoming logistical and information needs, flag execution risks or gaps, and escalate strategic or policy decisions as appropriate.
Executive Briefing and Communications Support:
- Prepare and coordinate briefing materials, talking points, stakeholder profiles, meeting summaries, and other materials for senior executives, incorporating input from relevant subject-matter experts.
- Consolidate complex policy, regulatory, political, industry, and business inputs into concise, well-structured briefing materials.
- Coordinate review and approval processes to ensure materials reflect Visa's established business priorities, public policy objectives, and corporate positioning.
- Document outcomes, decisions, and follow-up actions and route them to the appropriate owners.
Program Management and Execution:
- Manage workplans, engagement calendars, dashboards, governance routines, and processes across executive engagement activities, ensuring commitments, approvals, deadlines, and follow-up actions are tracked and completed.
- Monitor developments, requests, and opportunities from trade associations and external organizations, coordinating with the appropriate internal teams to support timely follow-through.
- Coordinate annual planning and periodic reviews of memberships and executive engagement activities, including objectives, participation, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Anticipate upcoming needs, identify execution risks or gaps, and escalate strategic or policy decisions as appropriate.
- Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen coordination, reduce duplication, and improve execution.
Confidentiality and Integrity:
- Handle sensitive business and executive information with discretion and conduct all work in accordance with Visa's policies, ethical standards, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrate professionalism, trustworthiness, and integrity in interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
Leadership Expectations:
The successful candidate will embody the Visa Leadership Principles by:
- Collaborating effectively across functions and geographies.
- Demonstrating accountability and ownership for high-quality execution.
- Operating with integrity and fostering trust.
- Embracing continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Exercising sound judgment and escalating decisions appropriately.
- Delivering superior outcomes through disciplined planning, coordination, and follow-through.
- Building strong relationships while supporting Visa's established strategic priorities.
This role offers an opportunity to strengthen the discipline, coordination, and execution behind Visa's engagement with influential organizations shaping policy, payments, and business around the world.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
- Strong program and project management skills, with demonstrated experience managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders, deadlines, and deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting senior executives and coordinating executive-level briefings, communications, meetings, or external engagements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to organize and distill complex inputs for senior audiences.
- Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and experience handling sensitive and confidential information.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across functions, influence without direct authority, and build effective workplans, processes, calendars, and tracking mechanisms.
- Familiarity with government affairs, public policy, regulatory, or industry association environments; knowledge of the payments industry is a plus.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Visa is seeking a highly organized Senior Manager, Global Government Affairs to manage and coordinate the company's executive engagement with key third-party organizations, trade associations, think tanks, policy forums, and other external stakeholders. This role will provide the operational discipline needed to ensure executive engagements are well planned, aligned with established business and policy priorities, and executed with excellence.
The successful candidate will combine strong program and project management capabilities with sound judgment, executive briefing experience, and excellent written and verbal communication skills. This individual will coordinate across senior leaders and partner teams, manage sensitive and confidential information, and deliver consistent processes, materials, and follow-through for external engagements.
The role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional who can manage multiple priorities and model the Visa Leadership Principles in all aspects of their work.
Key Responsibilities:
Executive Engagement and Stakeholder Coordination:
- Coordinate Visa's participation in trade associations, industry groups, policy organizations, and other third-party stakeholders in support of approved business and policy priorities.
- Manage the preparation, logistics, and follow-through for executive participation in external boards, councils, committees, conferences, and industry forums.
- Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for internal partners and external organizations, coordinating schedules, materials, deadlines, deliverables, and follow-up actions.
- Monitor relevant developments, requests, and opportunities from external organizations and route them to the appropriate internal teams.
- Maintain accurate records of executive memberships, leadership positions, key contacts, engagement history, commitments, and deliverables.
- Anticipate upcoming logistical and information needs, flag execution risks or gaps, and escalate strategic or policy decisions as appropriate.
Executive Briefing and Communications Support:
- Prepare and coordinate briefing materials, talking points, stakeholder profiles, meeting summaries, and other materials for senior executives, incorporating input from relevant subject-matter experts.
- Consolidate complex policy, regulatory, political, industry, and business inputs into concise, well-structured briefing materials.
- Coordinate review and approval processes to ensure materials reflect Visa's established business priorities, public policy objectives, and corporate positioning.
- Document outcomes, decisions, and follow-up actions and route them to the appropriate owners.
Program Management and Execution:
- Manage workplans, engagement calendars, dashboards, governance routines, and processes across executive engagement activities, ensuring commitments, approvals, deadlines, and follow-up actions are tracked and completed.
- Monitor developments, requests, and opportunities from trade associations and external organizations, coordinating with the appropriate internal teams to support timely follow-through.
- Coordinate annual planning and periodic reviews of memberships and executive engagement activities, including objectives, participation, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Anticipate upcoming needs, identify execution risks or gaps, and escalate strategic or policy decisions as appropriate.
- Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen coordination, reduce duplication, and improve execution.
Confidentiality and Integrity:
- Handle sensitive business and executive information with discretion and conduct all work in accordance with Visa's policies, ethical standards, and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrate professionalism, trustworthiness, and integrity in interactions with internal and external stakeholders.
Leadership Expectations:
The successful candidate will embody the Visa Leadership Principles by:
- Collaborating effectively across functions and geographies.
- Demonstrating accountability and ownership for high-quality execution.
- Operating with integrity and fostering trust.
- Embracing continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Exercising sound judgment and escalating decisions appropriately.
- Delivering superior outcomes through disciplined planning, coordination, and follow-through.
- Building strong relationships while supporting Visa's established strategic priorities.
This role offers an opportunity to strengthen the discipline, coordination, and execution behind Visa's engagement with influential organizations shaping policy, payments, and business around the world.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
- Strong program and project management skills, with demonstrated experience managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders, deadlines, and deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting senior executives and coordinating executive-level briefings, communications, meetings, or external engagements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to organize and distill complex inputs for senior audiences.
- Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and experience handling sensitive and confidential information.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across functions, influence without direct authority, and build effective workplans, processes, calendars, and tracking mechanisms.
- Familiarity with government affairs, public policy, regulatory, or industry association environments; knowledge of the payments industry is a plus.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.See All 27 Stakeholder Engagement Manager Jobs
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- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in stakeholder engagement manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in communications, public policy, business, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings and consultations with diverse stakeholder groups
- Strong written communication skills for reports, briefings, and stakeholder correspondence
- Experience developing and executing stakeholder engagement plans or communication strategies
- Ability to build relationships across government agencies, community organizations, or corporate divisions
- Proficiency with project management tools and document collaboration platforms
Tips for Your Stakeholder Engagement Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to engagement outcomes
Hiring managers for this role scan for measurable results, not just activities. Rewrite each bullet to show what changed after your engagement effort, whether that's a policy approved, a coalition formed, or a conflict resolved with a key stakeholder group.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists stakeholder engagement manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Align your language to the sector you target
Job postings in government use terms like 'public engagement' and 'consultation,' while corporate postings favor 'stakeholder mapping' and 'executive alignment.' Mirror the exact phrasing of each posting in your resume and cover letter so your application clears the initial screening.
Prepare a stakeholder mapping sample
Interviewers frequently ask you to walk through how you identify and prioritize stakeholders. Have a real example ready that shows your mapping process, the criteria you used to rank influence versus interest, and how the map shaped your engagement strategy.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Stakeholder engagement roles vary enormously in authority. During offer discussions, clarify whether you'll own the engagement strategy or execute someone else's plan, which internal teams you'll have direct access to, and whether the role includes budget authority for events or consultations.
Follow up with a situational leave-behind
After a final-round interview, send a one-page memo that briefly diagnoses a stakeholder challenge you discussed and outlines your initial approach. It demonstrates exactly the analytical and communication skills the role demands, and it separates you from candidates who send only a thank-you note.
Stakeholder Engagement Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most stakeholder engagement managers?
Akoya, Logic, and Marriott International are hiring the most stakeholder engagement managers right now, with openings concentrated in District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is strongest in government contracting, healthcare systems, and large infrastructure organizations.
How many stakeholder engagement manager jobs are remote?
About 73% of stakeholder engagement manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote arrangements most common in roles focused on digital communications, internal change management, and policy consultation rather than in-person community outreach or regulatory affairs work that requires a local presence.
How do you become a stakeholder engagement manager?
Most stakeholder engagement managers start in a communications, public affairs, community relations, or project coordination role and build toward the title over several years. You'll want to develop experience running consultations or public meetings, build fluency with stakeholder mapping frameworks, and collect examples of resolving tension between competing stakeholder interests. Gaining exposure to the specific sector you want to work in, whether government, healthcare, or corporate, sharpens your candidacy considerably.
Can you get a stakeholder engagement manager job with limited experience?
Yes, some organizations hire into associate or coordinator-level stakeholder engagement roles that feed into the manager track. Your best path in without direct experience is to highlight adjacent work, such as coordinating community events, managing internal communications, or supporting public consultations, and to demonstrate that you understand stakeholder mapping and engagement planning even if you haven't held the title formally.
What does the stakeholder engagement manager interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages: an initial screening call with HR or a recruiter, a competency-based interview focused on your communication and relationship-building experience, a panel or hiring manager interview with scenario questions about managing competing stakeholder priorities, and sometimes a written exercise or presentation where you outline an engagement approach for a hypothetical challenge. References are checked before or after the final stage.
Where can I find and apply to stakeholder engagement manager jobs?
You can find and apply to stakeholder engagement manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find the roles that match your experience and sector focus and apply directly to each listing.
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