Director, U.S. Strategic and Government Affairs

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on

Frequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards.

We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.

• Support development of U.S. growth strategy aligned with Frequentis’ global capabilities and U.S. business priorities.
• Translate government priorities and market developments into actionable business opportunities.
• Support strategic growth initiatives by identifying alignment between company capabilities and government needs.
• Advise and coach business development, account management, and capture teams on customer priorities, agency initiatives, and funding strategies.
• Coordinate government affairs activities across business development, communications, marketing, and operations teams.
• Monitor legislative, regulator, budgetary, and policy development and provide timely analysis and recommendations to leadership team.
• Assess the potential business impact of emerging policy initiatives, funding priorities, and acquisition strategies.
• Identify opportunities and risks arising from government actions, appropriations, and regulatory changes.
• Brief executives on political, budgetary, regulatory, and stakeholder developments.
• Own an integrated senior level government (federal and local) stakeholder engagement plan.
• Build and sustain relationships with government, customer, and industry stakeholders.
• Execute the senior level government stakeholder engagement plan.
• Coordinate meetings, briefings, site visits, demonstrations, and executive engagements with government officials and industry leaders.
• Represent the company at industry associations, conferences, working groups, and public policy forums.
• Develop strategic messaging and narratives that connect Frequentis technologies and capabilities to those stakeholders and are aligned with the strategy, vision, and Frequentis values.
• Help develop corporate narratives, position papers, talking points, and executive presentations.
• Coordinate communications and marketing on thought leadership, media, and events to be in alignment with the strategy and the high-level narrative.
• Support thought leadership initiatives that strengthen the company's reputation and visibility.
• Prepare leadership for meetings with government officials, industry executives, and key decision-makers.
• Ensure consistent messaging and alignment between company strategy and stakeholder engagement efforts.

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Business, Political Science, Communications, International Relations, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, strategic engagement, business development, or a related leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior government, customer, industry, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of U.S. government, policy-making, budgeting, and procurement processes.
• Proven ability to translate legislative, regulatory, funding, and market…