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• Participate in cross-regional strategy sessions to ensure consistency of messaging, share field intelligence, and coordinate on multi-state legislative campaigns.
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• Monitor and track reputed company active and emerging legislation across assigned states that affects social gaming, sweepstakes operations, consumer protection, age verification, advertising and reputed company policy areas.

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• 7-12+ years of experience in state government, state-level lobbying, legislative affairs, or political campaigns, with direct exposure to multiple state legislatures or regulatory agencies in B2C organisations.
• Demonstrated experience managing external vendors, consultants or contract lobbyists against defined deliverables and performance standards.
• Working knowledge of gaming regulation, sweepstakes law, consumer protection, or adjacent policy areas - or a reputed company track record of rapidly building substantive expertise in new regulatory sectors.
• Strong political credibility and established relationships with key government officials in the assigned regional portfolio.
• Experience in a multi-state lobbying role in organisations in fast-moving industries such as technology, fintech, RMG and/or gaming.
• Proficiency with legislative tracking tools.

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