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Role Description

About the role - you will:

• Own and drive U.S. Government Affairs strategy.
• Design, execute, and continuously refine a proactive strategy anchored to Seagate’s enterprise priorities and measurable business outcomes — including revenue growth, supply chain resilience, trade positioning, market access, and strategic partnerships.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership.
• Translate U.S. political and policy developments into clear business risks, opportunities, and strategic options. Engage regularly with C-suite leadership, providing decision-ready analysis and recommendations.
• Define and prioritize U.S. policy engagement.
• Determine where and how Seagate engages across the Executive Branch, Congress, and select state officials, ensuring efforts are tied to enterprise objectives and calibrated to the political environment.
• Strategically direct external firms and industry association engagement.
• Serve as the architect of Seagate’s external engagement strategy, directing government affairs and public affairs firms and shaping the company’s participation in key industry associations to advance corporate objectives.
• Lead cross-functional integration.
• Build and sustain an operating rhythm across Legal, Finance, Trade, Supply Chain, Operations, R&D, and Communications to embed government engagement in enterprise planning and to drive internal alignment and policy positions to ensure Seagate acts with speed internally and speaks with one voice externally.
• Deliver measurable results.
• Define and track outcomes, whether through influence on policy positioning, access to incentives or government programs, mitigation of regulatory or supply chain risk, development of strategic government partnerships, etc.
• Operate with independence and judgment.
• Exercise significant autonomy in a fast-moving political and regulatory environment, making real-time decisions with speed, discretion, and sound judgment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in government affairs, public policy, trade policy, or related fields.
• A track record of designing and executing policy strategies tied to business outcomes in complex, trade-exposed, and/or technology-driven sectors.
• Advising senior executives on policy matters with material business or strategic implications.
• Exceptional communication skills — written and verbal — calibrated for senior audiences.
• Deep fluency in U.S. federal policy processes, particularly across trade and tariff policy, emerging technology issues, industrial and R&D incentives, and supply chain–related policy.
• Building and sustaining cross-functional partnerships with business, legal, trade, operations, or finance teams in a corporate or complex organizational environment.
• Directing external consultants, lobbyists, or trade association strategies to advance defined corporate objectives.

Requirements

• Strategic operator who connects policy to business outcomes.
• Executive presence to engage credibly with C-suite leaders.
• Fast, creative, and decisive; able to define what matters and act.
• Energized by working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and corporate strategy.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including discretionary bonus, medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
• Short-and long-term disability, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, health savings account.
• Dependent care and healthcare spending accounts.
• Paid time off, including 12 holidays and flexible time off.
• A minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

Location

Washington, DC metro area (Remote work structure)

Travel

10 - 20%