Government Affairs Lead

About Base (Base Power Company): Base is America’s premier, next-generation infrastructure pioneer, distributed energy innovator, and software-driven power utility leader on an absolute mission to rebuild the foundation of modern civilization—the electricity grid. By engineering and deploying a vast, highly coordinated network of distributed residential and commercial batteries, Base is actively transforming today’s fragile, centralized energy grid into a hyper-resilient, abundant, and secure power architecture. Composed of an elite team of cross-disciplinary engineers, operators, and creatives, the company tackles the hardest regulatory, political, and thermodynamic challenges of our time. Operating as a fast-paced, high-intensity startup that rejects legacy utility bureaucracy, Base thrives on first-principles thinking, operational grit, and an all-in commitment to reshaping global energy reliability safely from the ground floor up.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, systems-minded Government Affairs Lead to join our core centralized Legal, Regulatory, and Policy (LRP) division in a full-time remote capacity base-stationed in Austin, Texas. In this senior, high-ownership executive seat, you will claim individual strategic accountability for monitoring the state legislative environment, building high-value regulatory relationships, and spearheading structural policy shifts as we expand across the nation. Base operates within a heavily regulated, legacy utility matrix where each state presents distinct interconnection rules, powerful political stakeholders, and legislative dynamics. Moving entirely beyond passive compliance monitoring or clerical filing, you will function as a high-agency strategist—setting priorities, drafting statutory language, managing external contract lobbying resources, and assembling powerful cross-functional coalitions to build a level playing field where distributed energy resources can compete and scale rapidly.

Key Responsibilities

• State and Local Legislative Strategy Ownership: Architect, implement, and govern Base’s state and local government affairs framework, setting clear priority indicators to expand the geographic boundaries where the platform can legally deploy.
• National Statutory Monitoring and Analysis: Drive national-level legislative evaluation, using specialized analytical data to dive deep into a dozen active and target energy markets to translate policy shifts into business-model recommendations natively utilizing Legal Consultant parameters.
• Statutory Drafting and Public Testimony: Author and edit formal legislative text, regulatory comment letters, position papers, and written testimony for legislative hearings to advance distributed grid interests.
• Contract Lobbyist and Advocacy Resource Management: Command and coordinate regional contract lobbyists and external advocacy partners across roughly a dozen states, setting clear workstream objectives without a large support network.
• Coalition Assembly and Pitch Curation: Build robust partnerships and align strategic priorities with cross-industry groups, consumer advocates, and trade syndicates, engineering high-impact materials natively leveraging Presentation Design toolsets.
• Public Sector Event Representation: Represent Base at global energy conferences, legislative hearings, and industry forums, delivering polished oral presentations that position the company as a credible voice on grid modernization.
• Cross-Functional Operational Alignment: Partner peer-to-peer alongside internal engineering, operational deployment, and executive leadership teams to translate emerging legal risks into agile go-to-market strategies.
• Agile Priority Refactoring: Navigate a fast-moving, high-intensity startup environment with extreme grit, proactively adapting your core work focus as corporate target markets and electrical utility parameters shift.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of verified professional history running advanced government affairs, public policy administration, corporate lobbying management, or grid regulatory consulting.
• Demonstrated commercial history successfully shaping, writing, or advancing state-level infrastructure, utility, or energy legislation through complex multi-stakeholder processes.
• Deep, authoritative technical command of state legislative mechanics, draft workflows, and regulatory approval rules, with existing relationships among legislators, commissions, or model policy groups.
• Expert-tier proficiency structuring complex policy frameworks, regulatory arguments, and corporate alignment pitch decks natively using **Presentation Design** applications.
• Outstanding problem-solving logic and project management instincts, displaying total comfort holding multiple parallel state workstreams simultaneously with minimal oversight.
• Outstanding verbal, written, and oral presentation mechanics, with a proven capability to advocate fiercely before public utility boards, draft technical papers, and align cross-functional teams.
• Location Context: Parameters open exclusively to qualified policy directors base-stationed permanently within **Austin, Texas** to execute duties under a 100% remote work-from-home model while aligning with rapid startup timelines.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior professional history managing policy parameters inside a venture-backed tech startup, renewable energy company, or hardware-integrated distributed resource infrastructure.
• Familiarity with regional grid transmission operators (e.g., ERCOT, PJM, MISO), battery interconnection protocols, or wholesale electricity marketplace pricing rules.
• An outcome-driven personal philosophy rooted in first-principles thinking that questions assumptions, values principles over rigid rules, and maintains a direct, humble growth mindset.
• A pattern of demonstrated grit and mission alignment, indicating a complete willingness to go all-in to solve deep, interdisciplinary civilizational challenges.

What We Offer

• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, code-shape, and deploy the regulatory environments and public policies defining the future of America electrical grid infrastructure.
• Highly competitive startup baseline compensation packages calibrated precisely to evaluate and reward your public policy authority and market expansion speed, supplemented by equity options.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters offering location flexibility across the Austin sector, complete scheduling trust, and zero physical geographic office commuting friction.
• Access to a critical, senior-level seat within a lean, high-ownership Legal, Regulatory, and Policy collective where your outcomes visibly determine new market entries.
• The unique opportunity to execute the most impactful, ceiling-raising work of your career alongside an elite group of versatile software engineers, core energy operators, and high-intensity builders.
• Comprehensive physical health, corporate medical, and lifestyle benefit parameters designed to maintain long-term personal resilience inside the competitive startup arena.