Senior Public Policy Analyst, Emerging Technologies

3 days ago


San Francisco, United States The MENA Catalysts, Inc. Full time
BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.Senior Public Policy Analyst, Emerging TechnologiesLocation: In-Person, San Francisco, PresidioWhat You’ll Get
  • High-impact work: Contribute to meaningful public policy analysis in emerging technologies that shape high-tech in the Middle East.
  • Career growth: Gain skills for top-tier tech policy roles with hands-on experience.
  • Next-Level Skills: Benefit from 20 years experience in under 2 years in public policy; opportunity for public speaking after the first 6 months. Receive mentorship from a senior colleague with decades of experience from a public policy veteran regularly cited as a public policy-related specialist on CNN, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
  • Direct access: Meet hard-to-reach high-tech policymakers
  • Perks: Office-goodies. Monthly team lunches
  • Education Stipend: $1,500 usd for career-related skills, to be used on almost whatever you think will help you grow in your career, after every 12 months of work.
  • Your birthday is a holiday.
  • Be Real: This isn’t a coffee-fetching gig. You’ll shape policy that matters in the Middle East.
ResponsibilitiesThought leadership, Research Knowledge Management, and Project Delivery
  • Strategy
  • Create actionable client public policy research
  • Evaluate research, formulate hypotheses, and communicate policy recommendations to company management.
  • Help write Gulf public policy plans and special Middle East market intelligence sectoral briefing memos for high-tech companies.
  • Support project execution for Gulf market plans and sectoral briefing memos.
  • Analysis
  • Deliver small public policy analysis projects to the CEO and, occasionally, to clients.
  • Analyze AI public policy companies’ trends, Web3, and fintech public policy trends on a monthly basis on a written doc or on slides.
  • Evaluate Gulf legislative, licensing and regulatory shifts in the digital economy, focusing on fintech, web3, and AI
  • Write thought leadership presentations, op-eds, and newsletters to elevate the company profile.
  • Provide local policy analysis of regulators, and licensing, policy trends
  • Teach your manager about your research and develop a well-organized research library in our Google Shared Drive for easy retrieval.
  • Junior Manager Experience
Work with CEO to build the company organization
  • Be the linchpin in adapting a GPT to transforming our disorganized Google Drive into a seamless, internal AI-powered GPT, that can turn disparate qualitative data into well-articulated public policy analysis for internal and external use.
    • To 10x the productivity of incoming public policy staff gradually.
    • Transfer project execution skills and abilities of the company’s senior people to junior staff and newcomers.
  • Managing upwards to firm leadership - provide project tracking and reporting internally to ensure milestones are being met.
About you
  • You're a dreamer: You make the complex, simple.
  • Uncanny attention to detail: with a knack for correcting and tracking details.
  • Intercultural skills: your emotional intelligence is like your secret weapon, a calming force under pressure.
  • Adaptable to fast-paced environments: willing to hustle and do whatever it takes to manage-to-results. You have a bias toward action.
  • Hungry to learn. Being a fast learner with an action-oriented mindset. You love to read books and own your own career skills development to learn the basics:
  • The MENA Catalysts’ business
  • New sectors like international government relations
  • Fluency in Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Slides eventually
  • Specific, great Chat GPT professional prompting skills
  • Client service-oriented: You treat the CEO as a client, aiming to understand his perspective and needs first.
  • Self-starter: Being proactive: Identify items that need to be done and resolve them without being told to.
  • Team player: Committed, reliable, with an attitude of “nothing is not my job.” You’re enthusiastic and eager to help wherever you can.
  • Integrity: The highest level of honesty, ethics, and accountability in all that you do.
Essential
  • Native-equivalent English written skills - can produce easily digestible content in Google slides and Google docs
  • In-person in San Francisco; already have visa to work in the United States
  • Storytelling skills
  • Problem-solver
You’re Perfect If…
    • You Problem-Solve: You find solutions before there’s even a problem.
    • Detail-Oriented: Small errors? You catch them all.
    • Hustler Attitude: Bias toward action, especially under pressure.
    • Solid with Tech: You know Google Docs and Google Slides inside out.
  • Team Mindset: Nothing’s “not your job” — you pitch in wherever.
Advantageous
  • Earned top university undergraduate degree; passionate about web3
  • Studied public policy or AI and emerging technology legislation
  • Mastery of Google docs, Google slides, ChatGPT
  • Experience in fintech companies, licensing, public policy, or working abroad.
Firm ProfileThe MENA Catalysts is a leading public policy firm guiding top tech companies into Middle Eastern countries. We focus on policy intelligence, licensing strategy, and policymaker education for clients in fintech, Web3, and AI. The MENA Catalysts has been at the forefront of Gulf public policy, with experience spanning high-level negotiations and government partnerships in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.The firm provides A-Z Middle East public policy analysis, research intelligence, and policymaker education at the highest levels of government. Project themes often touch on data residency, data protection, privacy, protectionism, competition policy, and cybersecurity legislation, in three sectors: fintech, web3, AI.Our ‘sweet spot’ resides in them, as well as in public policy formation, licensing, intelligence tracking and partnerships for governments and high tech companies — backed by years of experience and a proven track record — opening new countries for global tech companies.The MENA Catalysts help craft public policy that affects the lives of millions of people.– but it's the diversity of our people and ideas, that inspire the innovation that runs through everything we do.We sat at the table with ministers drafting high tech legislation that will affect the region’s digital economies for decades to come.Together, they changed Gulf public policy strategy formation as we know it, by being the first to scale international good practices in high tech policy across The whole-of-the-UAE government and then across Saudi government high tech policymakers.If you are already in San Francisco, and ready to be part of a high-impact team, please apply to headquarters@themenacatalysts.com sending:
  • Cover letter explaining why you want this role in tech policy.
  • Updated resume demonstrating relevant experience that speaks to this role description
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