Apple

Dir, Gov't Affairs State and Local

Apple$150K — $200K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of professional experience in state-level political advocacy and strategy development.
  • Proven leadership and interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders at all organization levels.
  • Strong collaboration skills within cross-functional teams across diverse geographies.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on clarity and conciseness.
  • Experience managing high-performing, geographically dispersed teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive advocacy strategy to advance company policy priorities.
  • Evaluate the policy landscape to identify and address emerging issues in real time.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key policymakers and influencers to strengthen advocacy efforts.
  • Motivate and manage a team of regional government relations professionals and consultants.
  • Work with the government affairs team to inform legislative and regulatory developments.
  • Collaborate with business partners to drive consensus on policy priorities.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
  • Collaborative work environment with highly skilled cross-functional teams.
  • Chance to impact company policy and advocacy on a national scale.
Full Job Description
This role is a key leadership position responsible for developing and overseeing the company's government relations, advocacy strategy, and tactical execution at the US State and Local level. This role will work closely with multiple teams within the company to thoughtfully and strategically protect and promote the company's interests, as well to as advance our policy positions and relationships with key officials across the country.

Description

Develop and drive a strategic, comprehensive advocacy strategy to advance the company's policy priorities and to protect the company's interests.

Proactively assess the policy landscape to ensure new and emerging issues are identified and addressed in real time. Anticipate and analyze policy developments and advise senior leadership on risks

Work to develop, foster, and strengthen relationships with key policymakers and influencers, third party organizations, and other entities to enhance the company's advocacy efforts.

Motivate and lead and a team of regional government relations professionals and external consultants.

Collaborate with the broader government affairs team to develop and implement strategies to inform legislative/regulatory developments and advocate for Apple's policy positions.

Build strong working relationships with key business partners across the company to drive consensus on policy priorities and related government affairs activities.

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years of professional experience in roles that involve shaping state-level political and advocacy strategies and campaigns in government and/or the private sector.

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, able to advise and influence a wide range of internal and external colleagues at all levels of the organization.

Effective collaborator within cross-functional teams and capable of driving consensus across teams and geographies.

Excellent verbal and written communicator; detail-oriented, with the ability to quickly analyze complex issues and summarize political, legal and policy challenges in a clear, concise presentation.

Demonstrated track record of managing high performing teams that are geographically dispersed.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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