Job Description

Trilligent Brussels is looking to hire a Consultant/Senior Consultant to join our industry-leading team. We are looking for ambitious, talented professionals with EU policy and policy comms knowledge, ideally with previous experience with the tech sector or digitalizing industries. We are also considering applications from freelance or self employed individuals.

As a global strategic advisory firm, Trilligent partners with companies in the tech sector, from early-stage tech start-ups through established multinationals – to help them navigate complex regulatory, political and communications environments. We help our clients maintain their license to operate and inform their business strategy based on political risk and opportunity.

Our ideal candidate would need to have a minimum of 4/6 years of relevant experience in consultancy, in-house government relations roles, European institutions, or within trade associations. You will demonstrate strong expertise in the EU policymaking process, skill to navigate the Brussels policy communications landscape, and proven business acumen to understand how politics and regulations influence business outcomes. We are also considering applications from freelance or self employed individuals.

This is a superb opportunity for a high-performing and initiative-taking colleague who will be responsible day-to-day for large client projects, coordinating cross-border activities, delivering client-ready materials, reviewing the work of junior team members and actively engaging in the generation of new business.

Experience/Responsibilities

• Have at least 4/6 years of EU tech policy and policy communications experience, including leading successful client teams or advocacy projects
• Have strong enthusiasm for EU politics and advocacy
• Be able to nurture client relationships, assist the management of client teams, take ownership of client and new business projects
• Offer knowledgeable observations and suggestions on strategy and tactics, establish credibility by insights shared
• Demonstrate a good understanding of effective project management
• Take ownership and actively engage in team member development demonstrating thoughtful planning to increase individual skill sets by setting smart objectives

We provide:

• The opportunity to work on a diverse range of clients and projects with some of the industry’s best and brightest;
• A collegial and collaborative working environment, where you will work closely with colleagues from around Europe and the world;
• Significant opportunities to develop professionally, with extensive training and personal development programmes;
• A competitive compensation and benefits package, including private medical insurance and mental health support;
• An enhanced parental leave policy for all our employees from day one.

About Trilligent

Trilligent is a free-form and remote-first boutique agency, engineered to help fast-moving, disruptive global companies secure permission to operate, grow and lead. With breathtaking technology-enabled advances emerging almost daily, Trilligent serves as a favoured partner in helping innovators bring their disruptive ideas to market and to acceptance, and sustain their permission to operate through insightful counsel, unmatched access, compelling narratives, and creative solutions

As a sister company of APCO Worldwide, Trilligent is supported by nearly four decades of success, bold independence and unique values and culture for which APCO is known worldwide. Trilligent’s presence in the metaverse is powered by the APCO AI Comms Lab—a first-of-its-kind innovation center that utilizes AI-driven solutions to build and protect the reputations of major global brands, governments and organizations. Based in Dubai, AI Comms Lab helps clients through a data-driven scientific approach based on insights into how companies, organizations and individuals communicate and engage with audiences and, more fundamentally, how they operate