Roles · Government & Programs
Head of Government Affairs
Latin America will spend this decade deciding whether it builds frontier AI capability or rents it. The region holds the energy, the minerals, the data, and the talent of 660 million people, and almost none of the compute, the models, or the governance leverage. Futuros exists to change that.
Futuros is the evidence platform for that argument: a live, cited, trilingual observatory of 25 countries built to put verifiable numbers in front of heads of state, CELAC, the IDB, CAF, ECLAC, and the private sector. Every claim on the platform resolves to a source, and the platform is in production today.
Platform in early access for partners and funders. We will walk you through it live during the process.
The role
The Head of Government Affairs turns evidence into decisions. The role owns the relationships with presidencies, ministries, CELAC, and the multilateral banks, and the path from a briefing that gets read to an agreement that gets signed. Futuros is deliberately non-aligned; keeping that posture credible with every bloc is part of the job.
What you'll do
- Own the government relationships. Presidencies, ministries of economy, science, and planning, and the technical staff who actually move decisions in 25 countries.
- Work the regional institutions. CELAC, IDB, CAF, and ECLAC: briefings, working groups, and the long path to institutional adoption.
- Convert evidence into agreements. MOUs, pilot agreements, procurement processes, and technical-assistance arrangements, with realistic timelines for each.
- Build the coalition. Private-sector champions, universities, and civil-society organizations that give the initiative legitimacy beyond any one government.
- Grow institutional funding. Work the grant and program-funding pipeline with the founder, from first meeting to signed award.
- Guard the posture. Sovereignty-first, critical of US, Chinese, and European dependencies alike. No bloc gets to claim us.
What we're looking for
- Government-facing depth. Roughly eight or more years working with LATAM governments or multilaterals, with outcomes you can point to.
- Minister-level access. You have opened doors at the top of ministries and know the difference between a meeting and a decision.
- Native-level Spanish. Written and spoken, at the register of official correspondence.
- Crisp writing. Your briefings get read because they are short, concrete, and sourced.
- Founding temperament. You are comfortable owning ambiguous problems with no one above you to escalate to.
Nice to have
- Portuguese; Brazil is a quarter of the region.
- Time inside a multilateral or a presidency.
- Development-finance literacy: how IDB and CAF operations actually get approved.
- An existing network across CELAC delegations.
- Enough technical literacy to demo the platform credibly.
How this works
This is a founding conversation. We are open on compensation, equity, and scope for the right fit, and we come to the table with strong institutional backing. We will be transparent about terms from the first call and expect the same directness back.
How to apply
Send a short note on your interest in the role, an example of what you've built that's aligned with the role, and why this is the dream role for you.
marcus@ladp.io