# Senior Director, State Government Affairs
**Company:** [PrizePicks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/prizepicks)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $220K-$275K
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Government Affairs, Public Policy, Legislative Strategy, Regulatory Affairs, Lobbying, Stakeholder Management, Political Advocacy, Budget Management, Team Leadership, Executive Communication
**Posted:** 2026-06-05
> Lead nationwide state government affairs strategy and advocacy for a fast-growing sports gaming platform. Build and manage a distributed team, shape multi-year legislative roadmaps, and serve as the primary liaison with state legislators, regulators, and industry partners.
## Job Description
## What you’ll do

**Organizational Design and Leadership**
- Build, scale, and lead a high-performing, geographically distributed team of government affairs pros
- Mentor and develop a bench of talent, ensuring the team is structured to anticipate legislative challenges and capitalize on opportunities proactively

**Budgeting & Resource Allocation**
- Develop and manage the annual State Government Affairs budget
- Oversee external firms and lobbyists
- Strategically allocate resources for maximum impact and efficiency across all jurisdictions
- Support political giving

**Strategic Policy Vision**
- Define the company’s multi-year legislative roadmap
- Anticipate evolving regulatory trends, influencing policy outcomes before they crystallize
- Serve as a key advisor to the C-suite on the intersection of political risk, consumer choice, and business strategy

**Public Representative**
- Act as a senior face of PrizePicks with state legislators, regulators, governors, and attorneys general in all jurisdictions
- Ensure stakeholders understand and champion the company’s customers and business

**Industry Influence and Reputation Management**
- Cultivate strategic alliances with industry leaders, trade associations, and coalition partners
- Set the agenda for the gaming and entertainment sector
- Establish PrizePicks as the gold standard for responsible policy advocacy

**Internal Communication & Reporting**
- Draft and distribute routine team updates on progress towards legislative and regulatory goals
- Provide concise and impactful summaries for internal company stakeholders and executive leadership

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Work closely with legal, comms, product, and marketing teams to tell the PrizePicks story and support the user community

## What you have

**Experience & Expertise**
- 12+ years of experience in high-level policy, government, and/or public affairs roles
- Proven track record of managing large-scale, multi-jurisdictional government affairs operations within tech, gaming, or highly regulated consumer industries

**Manager Experience**
- Experience leading teams and setting strategy

**Executive Presence**
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership and external stakeholders
- Distill complex policy impacts into actionable strategic pivots

**Strong Communication**
- Distill complex competitive and policy dynamics into short, high-impact, politically attuned messaging for both internal and external audiences

**Exceptional Interpersonal Skills**
- Quickly forge connections and build relationships, both internal and external

**Unparalleled Political Intuition**
- Navigate ambiguity and high-stakes political environments
- Make decisive, well-reasoned choices that protect the business while fueling its momentum

**Growth Mindset**
- Conviction that there’s always a way through
- Persistence to keep adapting until finding the right solution
- View each new challenge as an opportunity for professional advancement and growing internal culture of excellence

**Integrity**
- Ability to pass key personnel submissions and background checks as part of gaming licenses

## Benefits

- Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Annual bonus
- Flexible PTO (2 weeks strongly encouraged)
- Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
- Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules
- 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
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