VP of Public Affairs
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Mid-size
Open to ES, GB, AE only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Public affairs leader to build Airalo’s policy and advocacy function from scratch. Must understand regulators, policymakers, market-access risk, and telecoms/digital economy regulation across multiple jurisdictions. Remote role limited to Spain, the UK, or the UAE, with English as the working language.
Required languages
Help Us Build The Future of Travel At Airalo, we're making it easier for people to stay connected wherever they travel. As the world's first eSIM store, we help millions of travelers access affordable mobile data in 200+ countries and regions around the world. Today, we're a team of 400+ people across 60+ countries, building a product used by travelers every day. We've grown quickly, but we've worked hard to keep what matters: trust, ownership, and the freedom for people to do great work without unnecessary layers or bureaucracy. We're fully remote by design, genuinely global, and united by a shared mission to make travel simpler for everyone. Your Next Destination Location: Remote, anywhere in Spain, the UK, or the UAE. Contract: Spain: Full-time, permanent contrato indefinido via Deel (our employer of record in Spain) UK: Full-time, permanent (local contract) UAE: Full-time, permanent via Deel (our employer of record in the UAE)
Languages: English is our main working language day to day, so you'll need to be comfortable communicating in it both in meetings and async. Curious what it's actually like to work at Airalo? We've put together a guide for each of the hubs we hire from most, covering our benefits, remote culture, employment setup, and what our team values most:
You will build Airalo's public affairs function from scratch and oversee our external relationship with the world's regulators, policymakers, and industry bodies. This isn't a communications role with a government relations side — it's a substantive policy and advocacy role for someone who understands how to shape the environment a fast-growing tech company operates in. You will advise senior leadership and represent Airalo in regulatory processes across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, and ensure that market-access risks are identified early and addressed proactively. The role requires a sharp political instinct, genuine interest in the telecoms and digital economy regulatory space, and the credibility to represent a global brand.
What you'll do
- Build Airalo's public affairs function from scratch.
- Oversee Airalo’s external relationship with regulators, policymakers, and industry bodies.
- Shape the policy and advocacy environment a fast-growing tech company operates in.
- Advise senior leadership.
- Represent Airalo in regulatory processes across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
- Ensure market-access risks are identified early and addressed proactively.
What they require
- Comfortable communicating in English both in meetings and async.
- Understands how to shape the environment a fast-growing tech company operates in.
- Sharp political instinct.
- Genuine interest in the telecoms and digital economy regulatory space.
- Credibility to represent a global brand.
- By applying, you acknowledge and agree that, in case of successful application, Airalo may request to run background checks as a condition for entering into an agreement with you.
Benefits
- Full-time, permanent contrato indefinido via Deel in Spain.
- Full-time, permanent local contract in the UK.
- Full-time, permanent via Deel in the UAE.
- Benefits information provided via Airalo benefits link.
- Fully remote by design.
- Genuinely global team.
- Trust to own what you do.
- Freedom for people to do great work without unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.
- Stability, flexibility, and genuine work-life balance for teammates in Spain.
- Chance to work on a product used globally.
- Autonomy to shape how you work.
- Opportunity to keep taking on new challenges without getting stuck in one lane.
- Clarity in scope and real ownership in the role.
- Direct access to the people making decisions.
- Flexible remote setup.
eSIM marketplace and connectivity services aggregator