Director, EMEA Government Affairs – Public Policy

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Set and own Chainguard’s European policy strategy, including priorities, positions, target institutions and officials, and policy narrative. • Engage governments, regulators, and standards bodies across Europe and the UK, including the European Commission, European Parliament, ENISA, CEN-CENELEC, and ETSI. • Determine when to use industry coalitions versus direct advocacy and represent Chainguard in relevant bodies. • Forecast political and policy developments relevant to Chainguard. • Develop policy positions, consultation responses, and written submissions. • Speak on Chainguard’s behalf in public and industry forums. • Translate technical concepts into policy language and emerging requirements into implications for messaging and roadmap. • Support product, marketing, and revenue teams with policy credibility and positioning. • Build repeatable European government affairs processes, relationships, and intelligence flows. • Help build toward leading a regional team as the business grows.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of directly relevant experience in government affairs or public policy. • Experience building or growing a government affairs program or shepherding regulations, standards, or policy strategy through to an outcome. • Senior official engagement experience. • Ability to translate complex technical subject matter for policy audiences. • Comfort operating in ambiguity with minimal guidance and a scrappy, resourceful approach. • Excellent written and verbal communication. • A degree and/or equivalent years of experience in the field. • Based in Europe and able to travel frequently across the region. • Preferred: multi-country European policy or government affairs experience. • Preferred: fluency in one or more European languages in addition to English. • Preferred: experience across public and private sector government affairs. • Preferred: familiarity with ENISA, CEN-CENELEC, ETSI, and major European cybersecurity regulatory and standardization bodies. • Preferred: familiarity with the CRA conformity assessment framework and EU/UK lobbying transparency registers. • Preferred: experience representing a company through industry coalitions or trade associations. • Preferred: fluency in software supply chain security, cybersecurity, or AI subject matter. • Preferred: experience at a high-growth company.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs. • Stock options upon hire and promotion. • Participation in secondary offerings. • 10 years to exercise stock options. • 100% coverage of health, vision and dental insurance premiums for the employee and dependents. • ∞ Flexible Time Off. • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, usable all at once or throughout the child's first year.