Policy & Advocacy Lead

Who We Are: We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world’s most powerful AI models. We're the team that helps to power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that lets us operate a massive distributed crawler, giving us unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale. On top of that, we’ve built pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, powering dataset creation for frontier labs. We’re lean, technical, and move fast. No red tape, no slow decision-making; just a team of builders pushing to expand what’s possible for open web data and AI. The Role. We are seeking Policy and Advocacy Lead to champion our interests with policymakers in the U.S. and globally. As part of a small, dynamic team, you will drive engagement with legislators and regulators, track policy and regulatory developments affecting Grass, advocate for our priorities, and cultivate partnerships with mission-aligned organizations. Who You Are.

• Acts with integrity and seeks out responsibility
• Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, and motivation for getting things done
• Organized and process driven
• Approaches challenges as opportunities
• Curious and challenges personal assumptions regularly
• Welcomes feedback and open dialogue
• Values team success over personal recognition

What You'll Be Doing.

• Organizing and facilitating meetings with policymakers, regulators and strategic advocacy partners.
• Tracking policy and regulatory developments affecting Grass.
• Developing policy and regulatory advocacy strategies in line with Grass’ mission.
• Working closely with PR partners to support policy-related efforts with our media strategy.

Skills, Requirements and Qualifications.

• Advanced degree (JD, MPP, or Master’s in International Relations or Political Science) or equivalent work experience.
• Experience across any combination of government relations, public affairs, legislative or regulatory environments, and policy advocacy.
• Deep understanding of emerging technology trends and their intersection with policy and regulation.
• Well-established relationships with policymakers and regulators, primarily in the U.S.
• Proven ability to build coalitions and partnerships.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and strategic thinking skills.

Why Work With Us:

• Opportunity. We are at the forefront of developing a web-scale crawler and knowledge graph that improves access to public web data and extends the value of AI to the people.
• Culture. We're a lean team with a high bar. We come to work not to be comfortable, but to find out what we're capable of and to do work that matters. We're not calling for people who keep things moving. We're calling for people who make everyone around them better.

We prioritize low ego and high output. This is a fully remote team.

• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary, benefits and equity package.