Head of Public Policy

Job description

At Aiven, our vision is to help developers and builders bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity by providing a data platform that makes open-source infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. We are now embarking on one of our most ambitious strategic bets to ensure open-source thrives on European cloud infrastructure. The Role: We are looking for a Head of Public Policy to shape the regulatory and institutional landscape around European sovereign cloud infrastructure and lead Aiven’s company-wide policy work. Your mission is to influence how ‘sovereign cloud’ is defined in European policy, ensuring that sovereignty means more than data residency. In practice you will be creating the narrative and forming the landscape for a new category around truly sovereign and open-source cloud infrastructure. What You'll Do: Policy Strategy & Ownership: Create the True Sovereign Cloud category - Define and execute Aiven's public policy strategy centred on true European sovereignty and open-source - Ensure this strategy is tightly integrated with Aiven's roadmap and commercial objectives - Push the open-source sovereignty narrative into new audiences like government decision maker...