Senior Manager, EU Public Policy

Job Description

Are you an experienced Public Policy professional, with a genuine interest in tech and the platform economy? Do you want to help us level-up our game in Brussels as the new institutional mandate is just starting? If this sounds like you, then we’d love to chat!

With Wolt’s growth and expansion into new business areas comes also increasingly complex and broad regulatory frameworks. That’s why we are now looking for a Senior Manager, EU Public Policy to join our EU policy team. In this role, you will focus digital policy and as needed other policy areas. Beyond policy work, you’ll strive together with the EU policy team to ensure policymakers recognise Wolt as a relevant and approachable European tech champion. You represent Wolt vis-a-vis EU policymakers, industry associations, and other stakeholders. You will also coordinate with Wolt colleagues in other teams, including Legal and Product. The role is part of the Policy team and reports to the Head of EU Public Policy. The role is based in Brussels.

You have a fearless can-do attitude and you are eager to learn as you go. You feel at home at the intersection of law, politics, and business. You will have areas of responsibility with high degrees of autonomy and ownership.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading Wolt’s EU Public Policy work on digital policy, platform regulation
• Engage with EU policy makers at all levels and brief, prep, and advice Wolt leadership on all EU policy matters
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and assess their impact on our business
• Coordinate with other teams internally (in particular legal and comms), align with relevant global teams, and feed into internal strategy processes
• Develop engagement strategies, company positions, materials, and policy proposals
• Plan and execute advocacy campaigns in partnership with relevant internal partners
• Work with relevant external partner (agencies, trade associations, other platform operators, think thanks etc)
• Proactively and independently assess and decide on any actions that help us to make sure our voice is heard in relevant processes

Our humble expectations

• 8-10 years of public policy experience in an agency, in-house, or government role
• Masters degree in law, public policy, political science or similar
• Solid experience in leading engagements in EU policy processes
• Ability to represent the company at the highest levels of decision making
• Brilliant mind with ability to think strategically and develop creative and constructive policy proposals
• Analytical mindset to effectively weigh risks and payoffs in a number of scenarios
• Fluent in English and at least one further additional European language
• Willingness to travel

Next Steps

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!

Along with a competitive salary and benefits, you will also be eligible for our long term incentive plan.

You will fit into a truly diverse team across 27 countries – what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!

About Wolt

Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 31 countries today, 27 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, We’re About Getting Things Done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.

We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.