Public Policy Associate Senior

About the Role:

Responsible for supporting Pathward’s Public Policy function on issues affecting the banking, payments, financial technology, small business lending, and rural development finance sectors. Partners with internal stakeholders and external resources to deliver clear, consistent, and compelling public policy communications across earned media, corporate channels, executive platforms, and stakeholder engagements.

What You Will Do:

• Monitor, analyze, and summarize federal and state legislative and regulatory activity relevant to Pathward, including banking, payments, fintech, digital assets, bank-fintech partnerships, small business finance, rural development finance, and other issues affecting Pathward’s businesses.
• Contributes to the development of Pathward’s state public policy capabilities, including tracking priority state legislative and regulatory developments, identifying emerging risks and opportunities across key jurisdictions, liaising with state trade associations and external consultants, and state-level advocacy and engagement as appropriate.
• Drafts internal memoranda, issue summaries, briefing materials, talking points, leave-behinds, and other written materials that help inform Public Policy strategy, stakeholder engagement, and senior leadership decision-making.
• Responsible for the administration of Pathward’s PAC, including tracking PAC activity and participation, preparing materials, supporting solicitations and events, maintaining records, coordinating with external vendors on filings and compliance-related processes, and supporting execution across Public Policy priorities.
• Participate, as appropriate, in federal and state government, regulatory, trade association, coalition, PAC, and industry engagement, including meeting preparation, background research, agendas, follow-up notes, and related tracking.
• Leverage systems and processes for tracking policy priorities, stakeholder engagement, lobbying activity, regulatory developments, consultant deliverables, invoices, expenses, reporting obligations, and follow-up items.
• Plans events and other activities to support organization policy objectives.
• Acts as an information resource for internal partners and external consultants to advance issue advocacy, internal reporting, stakeholder engagement, and execution across Public Policy priorities.
• Frequent travel to perform role – Requires travel up to 25% of the time, including overnight and out of state.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience.
• Typically, 5+ years with bachelor's or equivalent.

Competencies:

• Ability to convey complex financial and technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Thriving in rapidly changing regulatory, technological, and competitive environments.
• Building and managing relationships with FinTech partners, vendors, and strategic clients.
• Effectively working across technology, operations, compliance, legal, risk, and business teams.

The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.

Salary range:  $72,000 – $120,000

 
The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity.  Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

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