Public Policy Associate

📋 Description

• Execute our policy communications strategy set by our Comms and executive leadership teams. Turn
• Build and hold relationships with Hill staff in personal offices and on committees, executive
• Advocate directly. Take meetings, deliver our positions, and follow bills and rulemakings that
• Run our D.C. event footprint. Hill staff briefings, roundtables, product demos, receptions
• Represent Perplexity in coalitions and trade association working groups. Track what's being said
• Partner with think tanks and civil society groups on convenings, research launches, and joint

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience, including time on Capitol Hill in a personal office or
• External lobbying experience, either at a government relations or law firm representing clients, or
• A real Washington network you built yourself, and the instinct to keep growing it.
• Event execution. You can run a 20 person Hill staff briefing or a 150 person reception end to end
• Strong writing. You can turn a meeting into a two paragraph readout and a briefing book into
• Sound judgment. You know what to escalate, what to handle, and how to represent a company in a room