Sr. Manager, Government Affairs & Political Strategy

Crux

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Crux is the capital platform for the clean economy, dedicated to modernizing capital raising and deployment for clean energy and critical infrastructure through advisory, investments, technology, and intelligence. With a team of over 95 experts, Crux has successfully raised $77 million in capital from prominent investors. The company addresses the growing demand for affordable and reliable electricity by transforming the opaque, fragmented, and analog traditional project financing methods, aiming to power a more prosperous, clean, and secure energy future. Crux is rapidly scaling and seeks team members who combine deep expertise with an AI- and tech-forward mindset. This Senior Manager role is critical in the post-OBBB landscape, allowing Crux to pursue an ambitious policy agenda, including fixing passive-active loss rules, expanding transferability, and securing a leadership position in permitting reform. The political environment is increasingly complex, with upcoming midterms and presidential cycles, presenting a unique opportunity for Crux to shape an abundance-oriented policy framework. Currently, the government affairs function is centralized, leading to operational bottlenecks in advocacy, commercial support, event planning, and policy communications. This hire will establish a dedicated operational layer for policy and politics, managing events, communications production, coalition coordination, advocacy campaign management, and cross-functional handoffs. This will free up other teams and enable Crux to consistently deliver timely and substantive policy engagement, while also contributing to strategic planning and representing the company independently.

Requirements

• 3–6 years spanning federal energy policy, government operations, or political strategy, with direct exposure to executive-level operations in a federal agency, on the Hill, or in a senior political role
• Demonstrated operational excellence, having built systems, run complex programs, and managed high-level logistics in a policy or political environment
• Solid understanding of federal energy policy: tax incentives, regulatory implementation, agency-Congress dynamics
• Comfortable operating across party lines
• Strong writer, able to draft policy briefs, talking points, op-eds under time pressure
• DC-based or willing to relocate
• Demonstrated experience with (or curiosity to learn) and strong judgment for how and when to leverage AI in the policy strategy context, e.g., rapid response content creation or internal team enablement

Nice To Haves

• Senior staff experience in a federal agency (DOE, Treasury, EPA) or cabinet-level office, especially roles that combined operational management with policy and political exposure
• Graduate-level education in public policy, international affairs, or political economy
• Familiarity with the transferable tax credit market, project finance, or broader clean energy capital markets
• Has built a function or program from scratch in a fast-moving environment

Responsibilities

• Build the specialized operational layer for government affairs, including event operations and convening playbooks, advocacy campaign management, coalition coordination workflows, political engagement tracking, policy comms production calendaring, and reporting cadences.
• Serve as the coordination point between government affairs and Growth, Commercial, and leadership on policy-related workstreams, managing handoffs on rapid-response comms, commercial talking points, client briefings, and press.
• Stand up and run the monthly policy salon series, including guest curation, logistics, programming, and follow-through.
• Design and execute policy roundtables and investor-policymaker events that further Crux's position as a trusted convener.
• Build the infrastructure for consistent policy comms output, such as biweekly partner memos, rapid-response blog posts and talking points, slides for commercial team use, webinar and fireside chat production, and content for Crux's social and newsletter channels with a policy lens.
• Own the ability to stand up policy programming on the timeline the market demands, coordinating with Growth where it makes sense but not dependent on their calendar.
• Work alongside the Head of Government Affairs on day-to-day advocacy, including Hill relationships, lobbying coordination, coalition management (including the Ad Hoc Transferability Coalition 2.0), and translating policy developments into intel for leadership and commercial teams.
• Support bipartisan relationship-building ahead of the 2026 midterms and 2028 cycle.
• Manage the political engagement calendar, including PAC administration and compliance as needed.
• Contribute to forward-looking policy and political strategy, including the passive-active loss campaign, TTC expansion beyond the IRA, permitting reform positioning, the policy feedback cycle between clients and policymakers, and Crux's engagement framework for the 2028 presidential cycle.
• Ensure that strategic plans translate into operational reality, including timelines, milestones, and accountability.

Benefits

• We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant.
• We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.
• 10 company holidays per year.
• 20 days per year.
• We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup).
• 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Total cash compensation: $150,000 - $175,000 base salary, depending on experience with flexibility if needed.
• Company wide bonus between $10,000 - $40,000 depending on where revenue lands.
• Stock options in a rapidly growing company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed