Global Government Affairs Director (AI)

Location: London, UK; onsite required, remote work not considered

Company

xAI is building a full superintelligence stack, including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and applications such as Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X.

What you will do

• Lead European government and strategic enterprise opportunity development, building pipelines for revenue-generating agreements.
• Research European AI and public-sector markets, assess competition and barriers to entry, and develop growth strategies.
• Build senior-level relationships with governments, regulators, academia, industry bodies, private-sector partners, and strategic advocates.
• Shape funding, procurement, policy, and regulatory conditions for market entry, expansion, and long-term positioning.
• Provide executive sponsorship for complex pursuits, government briefings, negotiations, relationship management, and deal acceleration through contract award and launch.
• Coordinate Sales, Marketing, Legal, Product, Engineering, and Finance while translating customer requirements into product and market strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of experience in government affairs, public policy, market access, strategic business development, or regulatory affairs.
• 4+ years of direct people leadership experience managing government affairs teams or personnel.
• Ability to build and leverage senior relationships with government officials, policymakers, and C-suite executives and influence outcomes in complex, matrixed environments.
• Deep, current knowledge of the UK and European government ecosystem, AI and digital-transformation policy priorities, and public-sector innovation agendas.
• Experience engaging with or influencing UK government departments and agencies such as DSIT and Cabinet Offices, or equivalent bodies.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence, including policy briefs, proposals, briefings, presentations, and senior government or industry forums.
• Ability to translate complex technical AI concepts into clear policy, mission, and business-value language.
• Experience contributing to cross-functional teams in fast-paced, matrixed organizations, with autonomy and comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Passion for xAI’s mission and genuine interest in the responsible, high-impact deployment of frontier AI for public good.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual-contributor role with close collaboration across global and local leadership.
• Travel required up to 25% and attendance at political and industry events on behalf of xAI.
• Flexibility is required, including long hours and weekend work when necessary for operations and critical project timelines.
• Work focuses on frontier AI deployments for European governments, public-sector initiatives, and critical national infrastructure.