Director, State Government Affairs & Public Policy

Director, State Government Affairs & Public Policy

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It's hard to believe that it's 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We're here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the Role

Flex is seeking a senior, strategic, and entrepreneurial leader to oversee our state government affairs strategy nationwide. Based in New York City, San Francisco or Salt Lake City and reporting to the Vice President of Public Affairs, this leader will represent Flex before state policymakers, regulators, and advocacy organizations, advancing policies that improve the financial stability of 44 million renters across the United States.

The Director of State Government Affairs will be responsible for shaping the state policy environment that enables Flex's growth, operational integrity, and social impact. This is a high-visibility enterprise role that requires strong political judgment, policy expertise, and the ability to operate at the intersection of innovation, regulation, and trust.

This leader will anticipate challenges and opportunities within complex state regulatory frameworks, support major strategic initiatives that depend on clear and credible engagement with regulators and policymakers, and ensure Flex maintains a position of transparency, responsibility, and credibility.

We are seeking someone who is decisive, proactive, and not afraid to pick up the phone. They will thrive in quick iteration cycles, communicate directly, and act with urgency. This person will think creatively about how Flex and Flex for Good can leverage their platforms for positive impact, while ensuring all engagement meets the highest standards of compliance and ethics.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic and Enterprise Leadership

• Design and lead Flex's state government affairs strategy, aligning policy engagement with business growth, risk mitigation, and social impact goals.
• Serve as a senior advisor to leadership on state policy and regulatory developments that influence company strategy and product innovation.
• Build trusted relationships with state regulators, legislators, and external experts to facilitate transparent dialogue and credibility for major strategic initiatives.
• Lead strategic policy planning in key states where regulatory alignment is central to Flex's long-term business model.
• Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, and Finance to ensure alignment between government affairs and regulatory readiness.

2. Advocacy and Representation

3. Regulatory Engagement and Preparedness

4. Performance, Accountability, and Culture

Qualifications

The compensation range for this role will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks. For working locations in NY / NJ / CA, the base salary pay range will be $270,000 - $297,000. For all other states, the base salary pay range will be $243,000 - $267,000.

Life at Flex :

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self-aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada, and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits & perks. For full-time U.S based positions we offer :

For full time non-US employees, we offer :