External Affairs Manager (Healthcare)

Location: Remote - US; approximately 20% travel expected.

Salary: $100K–$110K annually.

Company

hirify.global provides workforce compliance management technology and data solutions for healthcare professionals, employers, licensing boards, and regulators.

What you will do

• Track legislation, rulemaking, board actions, licensure compacts, and continuing education requirements across priority states and national bodies.
• Identify relevant policy developments and translate complex legislation and regulations into summaries, briefings, and talking points.
• Coordinate contract lobbyists, including agreements, deliverables, and lobbying compliance filings.
• Build relationships with healthcare associations, workforce centers, educational institutions, regulators, and professional organizations.
• Coordinate participation in coalitions, task forces, conferences, and other external forums while preparing the VP for meetings.
• Lead External Affairs operations by managing priorities, timelines, relationships, events, deliverables, and scalable processes using HubSpot and Quorum.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in government relations, regulatory affairs, public policy, or association management, ideally in healthcare, professional licensure, or another highly regulated industry.
• Strong understanding of state legislative processes, agency rulemaking, and licensing boards, with the ability to explain the significance of bills and rules.
• Experience building productive relationships with associations, regulators, educators, and workforce organizations.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication for internal and external audiences.
• Familiarity with lobbying registration and disclosure requirements and experience working with contract lobbyists.
• Ability to manage multiple bills, jurisdictions, and relationships while maintaining the broader picture.
• Comfort working independently, making decisions with incomplete information, and knowing when to escalate.
• Ability to create structure, repeatable processes, templates, and systems in a growing function.
• Active engagement with changes in healthcare policies and regulations is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with healthcare licensure, continuing education, nursing workforce policy, or professional regulation.
• Familiarity with FSMB, NCSBN, CLEAR, and interstate licensure compacts.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, global, distributed work environment with asynchronous communication.
• Full-time schedule: 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, unless project requirements differ.
• US employees receive health, dental, and vision coverage options, 401(k) matching, PTO, paid holidays, volunteer time off, and additional leave options.
• Benefits include lifestyle spending support, employee assistance programs, fertility and hormonal support, discounted elective care, and pet insurance.
• Professional development allowance and company-sponsored anniversary trips after 10 and 20 years.

Hiring process

• Four stages: People Ops introduction, hiring manager interview, team panel, and senior leadership alignment interview.
• Application responses should be thoughtful and original; writing is important because communication is remote and asynchronous. “See resume” or “N/A” responses will not lead to an interview.