[Hiring] Director of Government Affairs @PrizePicks

Role Description

PrizePicks is looking for a Director of Government Affairs to help lead advocacy efforts with legislators and key stakeholders around issues related to daily fantasy sports, gaming, and sports and entertainment. This is a high-impact role for a thoughtful, driven professional who is passionate about great consumer products and public policies that support consumer choice. It reports into the VP of Public Affairs.

What you’ll do:

• Public Representative: As the face of PrizePicks, you’ll ensure state legislators, regulators, governors, and attorneys general in your jurisdictions understand and champion our customers and business.
• Coalition & Relationship Building: Convert allies into champions, undecideds into friends, and engage with 3rd party stakeholders, peers, and competitors across the broader gaming ecosystem, including casino operators and tribal gaming communities.
• Legislative and Regulatory Strategy: Lead our legislative and regulatory strategy development and engagement in your jurisdictions and keep internal company stakeholders informed on progress toward company goals.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with comms, legal, product, and marketing teams to tell the PrizePicks story and support our user community.
• Management & Execution: Manage a roster of external firms and lobbyists, ensuring every resource is used for maximum impact and efficiency.
• Travel: Attend frequent stakeholder meetings, political organization conferences, and industry and relationship building events.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in policy, government, and/or campaign roles with a strong grasp of politics, media and comms, the legislative process, and familiarity with tech, consumer apps, and gaming issues.
• Strong Communication: Ability to distill complex competitive and policy dynamics into short, high impact, politically attuned messaging for both internal and external audiences.
• Exceptional Interpersonal Skills: Ability to quickly forge connections and build relationships, both internal and external.
• Strategic Thinking at Pace and Scale: Aptitude for finding creative ways to secure wins in rapidly changing environments across multiple jurisdictions.
• Growth Mindset: Conviction that there’s always a way through and persistence to keep adapting until the right solution is found.
• Integrity: Ability to pass key personnel submissions and background checks as part of gaming licenses.
• Mission-Driven: Competitive mindset and passion for ensuring consumers have access to innovative new options.

Requirements

• While we prefer candidates based in New York, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates.

Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Annual bonus
• Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development