U.S. Government Affairs, Senior Manager

Who We Are

About the Team

About the Role

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support the development and execution of OKX’s U.S. government relations and public-policy strategy.
• Monitor and analyze federal and state legislative, regulatory, and political developments relevant to crypto, financial services, market structure, consumer protection, AML, sanctions, and technology.
• Distill complex policy and regulatory developments into clear, actionable briefings for Legal, Compliance, Product, Communications, and business teams.
• Assist in creating materials for licensing, regulatory, and government meetings, including briefing books, presentations, talking points, background research, stakeholder profiles, and follow-up summaries.
• Help prepare regulatory submissions, consultation responses, policy memos, comment letters, and other external-facing materials.
• Partner closely with external lobbying firms to coordinate advocacy priorities, meeting preparation, intelligence gathering, and follow-up across federal and state policy workstreams.
• Help plan and execute Hill Days, including stakeholder outreach, meeting scheduling, briefing materials, participant preparation, and post-meeting tracking.
• Manage day-to-day engagement with relevant trade associations, coalitions, and industry working groups; identify opportunities to advance OKX’s policy priorities.
• Represent or support OKX at policy conferences, regulatory roundtables, industry events, and other external forums.
• Support the company’s PAC advisory activities, including policy research, stakeholder mapping, meeting preparation, and administration in partnership with the Global CLO, Legal team, and external advisors.
• Build and maintain productive working relationships with policymakers, regulators, congressional staff, industry groups, and other external stakeholders.
• Support meetings involving senior company leaders and external stakeholders, including preparation, attendance where appropriate, follow-up, and tracking of commitments.
• Maintain organized records of external engagements, policy developments, advocacy priorities, and key commitments.

What We Look For In You

• 6+ years of relevant experience in government relations, public policy, regulatory affairs, law, financial services, or a related field.
• Familiarity with U.S. financial-services regulation and the policy issues shaping crypto and digital assets.
• Experience working with government, a regulator, Congress, a trade association, policy consultancy, law firm, lobbying firm, or a regulated financial-services or technology company.
• Strong research, analytical, writing, and presentation skills; able to make complex issues accessible to non-specialist audiences.
• Experience producing polished meeting materials, stakeholder briefings, policy memos, and presentations under tight deadlines.
• Excellent project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain close attention to detail.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and a collaborative approach to working across functions.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where policy and business priorities can evolve quickly.
• A genuine interest in the future of digital assets, financial innovation, and responsible regulation.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with congressional offices, federal financial regulators, state financial-services policy, or licensing processes.
• Existing working relationships with relevant U.S. policy, regulatory, or industry stakeholders.
• Experience drafting comment letters, consultation responses, or other policy advocacy materials.
• Experience coordinating Hill Days, policy events, trade-association participation, or external lobbying partners.
• Knowledge of crypto market structure, stablecoins, payments, custody, or AML/sanctions policy.

Why Join Us?

• Help shape the policy and regulatory environment for digital assets in the United States.
• Work closely with the Global CLO, senior leaders, external advisors, and experienced policy, legal, compliance, and business partners.
• Build meaningful exposure to licensing, regulatory, and government-affairs work at a global digital-assets company.
• Competitive compensation, including equity/token participation, and a flexible global working environment

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package
• L&D programs for employees' growth and development
• Various team building programs and company events
• More that we love to tell you along the process!