Senior Director, Public Affairs

About Perplexity Perplexity helps people find answers, explore ideas and get things done with AI. As we grow, we want policymakers around the world to understand what we're building and how it works. Overview We're hiring a Director, Public Policy as a founding member of our policy team. Based in Washington, D.C., this role will help build and scale our engagement with governments, regulators and policy communities worldwide. Ideal candidates have built this function before, not only operated within an established team. The role requires hands-on coordination and will help set policy priorities with company leadership. We will prioritize candidates who can demonstrate resourcefulness, persistence, and a willingness to work through the details to get things done. This role reports to the Senior Director, Product, Privacy & Regulatory Legal and will operationalize our public positions set by Comms and executive leadership. What you'll do Build the program. Turn company priorities into a global engagement plan, with clear market priorities, owners and measures of progress. Scale how we work. Establish stakeholder tracking, policy monitoring and briefing standards that keep a growing team coordinated across regions. Build relationships across markets. Engage policymakers, regulators, trade associations, think tanks and civil society in the U.S. and key international markets. Anticipate change. Listen closely to policymakers to understand current priorities and emerging debates. Use expertise and trusted relationships to identify risks and raise opportunities the company may not yet see. Lead advocacy. Advance approved company positions through direct engagement and coalitions, adapting to local contexts and applicable lobbying and ethics requirements. Advise leadership. Translate political and regulatory developments into business implications and recommendations. Bring intelligence back to Legal, Comms, Product and executives. Connect policy and communications. Inf

About the Team The OpenAI for Government AI Architect team partners with public sector organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with government agencies, public institutions, and partner organizations serving the government to identify where AI can advance critical missions, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Global Affairs, and specialist delivery teams to help public sector customers adopt advanced AI responsibly and effectively. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will shape each customer's AI strategy and guide their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable mission impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate mission priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value. The Account Director leads the overall account strategy and relationship, while you lead the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production impact. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong public sector fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. This r

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As a Manager, Public Policy and US State Strategy, you will report to the Senior Director of U.S. Public Policy and State Strategy developing an engagement strategy for the U.S. States. You will help build relationships and promote an environment that best positions Roblox for the future across the U.S. and with our partners globally. You will work internally and externally with a mastery of Roblox's policies and philosophies to advocate firstly on behalf of the Roblox community, and also on behalf of our product and engineering teams and its business. This role will cover our Southeast States. Role is based in our San Mateo, CA headquarters or Washington, DC office You Will Develop relationships with state policymakers and political figures Identify, monitor, and analyze policy issues affecting Roblox in the U.S. States Develop strategies for engaging with state policymakers around issues important to Roblox Assist the wider public policy team on ongoing projects Advise Roblox team members on public policy matters as inputs to the development of our products and business operations Articulate our public policy positions in briefing papers and consultation responses Communicate with e

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is seeking an experienced sales leader to lead a team of Account Executives as a Regional Director: Federal, Aerospace & Defense, and FSI’s. The ideal candidate will have a history of building and leading teams to over-perform in quota attainment, close transformational transactions, and align strategically with Federal Civilian & DOD Agencies, Aerospace & Defense, as well as FSI accounts. This role is based in the Washington D.C. area and part of the Public Sector Enterprise Sales Leadership team. You Will: Build and lead a Sales team to exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas Effectively predict and deliver sales results through accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual sales forecasting Serve as player/coach in the execution of a complex, solution­-based sales process encompassing multiple groups within the Federal market and assigned list of A&D and FSI accounts Play a leadership role in developing new business opportunities by coaching Account Executives to build and execute account-focused strategies Drive Smartsheet senior executive engagement in target accounts Successfully execute across all disciplines of sales management, including Account/Opportunity/Relationship planning and sales methodology execution Partner with Sales Engineering, Consulting, Customer Success and Marketing management to identify and close software and professional services solutions. Proactively identify and address issues that will increase growth velocity in the assigned sales region Oth

About the team The OpenAI for Government team is a dynamic, mission-driven group leveraging frontier AI to transform how governments achieve their missions. Our team works to empower public servants with secure, compliant AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise in custom configurations) and mission-aligned deployments that meet government technical requirements with strong reliability and safety. As part of the OpenAI for Government team you will work across U.S. defense enterprises, helping to accelerate adoption through hands-on support, tailored training, and early insights—so civil servants can spend less time on red tape and more on meaningful work. If you're passionate about responsibly deploying frontier AI to uplift public institutions and transform how the government serves the American people, we want you on our team. About the Role The Strategic Delivery Lead (SDL) for DoW will identify and deliver on some of OpenAI’s most complex and high-impact deployments for the U.S. national security enterprise, with a focus on CDAO-led efforts including GenAI.mil , Advana (WDP), and other programs that accelerate DoW adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence across the DoW enterprise. The role is highly cross-functional and customer-facing: You’ll partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, CDAO, the Military Departments and Services supported by CDAO, and other external stakeholders to align on scope, unblock delivery, and communicate progress at every level, from technical teams to C-suite. You will own and drive execution of technical delivery workstreams led by internal teams (Forward Deployed Engineers, Researchers, Solutions Architects, Enablement), ensuring clear problem-framing, crisp milestone definitions, proactive risk identification, rapid issue resolution, and effective translation between business objectives and technical solutions, while consistently communicating clear progress and demonstrating tangible value to national security cus

Senior Designer Description - ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Senior Designer who leads by doing. This is an equal-parts strategic and hands-on role — someone who sets the creative bar for our in-house agency, earns credibility through exceptional work, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves when it matters. You champion design excellence, can defend your decisions with clarity and confidence, and help grow the people around you. This role sits within a balanced creative environment: you’ll have real influence over the work, while partnering closely with internal clients across marketing, sales, and product who hold final approval. Success here means earning trust through quality and communication, not just creative instinct. Day-to-day you’ll operate across mid-to-lower funnel channels — social, ecommerce, retail, sales enablement, and short-form video. You think like a creative director but know that craft lives in execution. Production is where the rubber meets the road, and you’re proud to be there. WHAT YOU’LL DO Produce exemplary design work across social, etail, retail, sales decks, and short-form video that raises the quality bar for the whole team Partner with internal clients across marketing, sales, and product — translating briefs into design that performs and building lasting working relationships Concept and execute with both visuals and words — thinking across design and messaging together, not in isolation Defend design decisions with strategic rationale, balancing business goals with creative integrity Contribute upstream — shaping briefs, influencing strategy, and catching creative problems before execution begins Maintain and evolve brand standards, ensuring visual consistency across all channels and touchpoints Build scalable systems — templates, as