VP of Public Affairs

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🌐 United Kingdom, Spain, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

💵 £98k - £133k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Airalo

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

✈️ Travel

Telecommunications • Technology • Travel

Airalo is the world's first eSIM store that provides digital SIM cards (eSIMs) to travelers in over 200 countries and regions globally. The company offers an innovative solution to avoid high roaming charges by allowing users to purchase and activate eSIMs via its app, ensuring instant connectivity without the need for physical SIM cards. Airalo caters to various travelers by providing local, regional, and global eSIMs with transparent, prepaid pricing plans, supported by 24/7 customer service. The platform also supports partnership through APIs and offers incentives such as referral credits. Airalo represents a modern approach to global mobile connectivity, making it an essential tool for frequent travelers.

📋 Description

• Design and lead Airalo's global public affairs strategy, aligned to business priorities and market-expansion plans. • Build the public affairs function — establish processes, select external advisors and lobbying firms by market, and, in time, grow a team around you. • Develop a forward-looking policy horizon scanner to anticipate regulatory change before it becomes a fire to fight. • Lead direct engagement with government ministries, telecom regulators (TRAIs, Anatel, OFCOM equivalents, etc.), and consumer protection bodies across priority markets. • Represent Airalo in regulatory consultations, public hearings, parliamentary or congressional inquiries, and trade body working groups. • Build a trusted network of policymakers, civil servants, and industry peers who see Airalo as a credible and constructive actor in the sector. • Monitor and analyse, policy and regulatory developments across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and North America. • Develop and maintain Airalo's policy positions on key issues: eSIM licensing, data privacy, consumer protection, digital markets regulation, and cross-border telecoms. • Build and manage Airalo's relationships with industry associations (GSMA, MVNO associations, digital economy coalitions) and shape our participation in their policy workstreams. • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Commercial teams to ensure policy work is integrated into broader business decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in public affairs, government relations, policy, or regulatory affairs — in-house at a tech or telecoms company, or in a public affairs consultancy serving this sector. • Demonstrable track record of influencing regulatory outcomes and managing multi-jurisdictional government relations programmes. • Deep understanding of the telecoms, digital economy, or platform regulation landscape . • Ability to operate autonomously as a first hire, building structure and process without a team underneath you from day one. • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills . • High political intelligence: you know how to frame Airalo's interests in a way that resonates with government stakeholders, not just internal audiences. • Comfortable operating remotely across time zones in a fast-moving, commercially driven environment. • Preferred • Experience managing external affairs agencies and consultants across multiple geographies. • Prior experience building a public affairs function from the ground up.

🏖️ Benefits

• Learn more about our benefits here in this link - https://airalo-public.notion.site/Benefits-25396a97ffca81fb9bc1f0be479f1be3?pvs=74