Headquarters: Arlington, Virginia, United States
URL: https://jobs.workable.com/company/uA8SVcAxYcFwjnCSsND9Vp/jobs-at-swimply

Swimply is the marketplace that lets homeowners rent out their private pools, hot tubs, courts and backyards by the hour. Thousands of hosts across the United States and Canada use Swimply to share space they already own with families and small groups in their community.

Because hourly backyard rentals are new, most local codes were written before they existed. Towns, counties, health departments and homeowners associations regularly try to fit Swimply into rules written for hotels, public pools, home businesses or overnight short-term rentals. We are building a dedicated regulatory function to manage those matters at scale and to move the rules in our favor, state by state.

You will own the day-to-day operation of the program and work directly with our General Counsel, our CEO, our Head of Operations and the outside lobbyists and local counsel we retain.

The Role

The Regulatory Affairs Manager runs Swimply's regulatory program end to end. Half of the job is operational: every notice a host or the company receives is logged, answered and tracked to a close. The other half is strategic: finding the bills, partners and officials that let us fix the rules for a whole state at once instead of town by town.

Run the notice program

• Own the regulatory intake: the regulatory inbox, the host reporting form and escalations from the Host Success team.
• Log every cease-and-desist letter, notice of violation, HOA demand and listing takedown in the regulatory tracker, by state, city, issuing agency and legal theory.
• Sort each matter by the theory being used against us: public pool classification, home occupation or zoning, short-term rental rules, business licensing and tax, or HOA covenants.
• Send the approved standard response to the host or code officer, and follow up until the matter is closed or escalated.
• Escalate to the General Counsel within one business day anything involving a subpoena, a records demand, a lawsuit, criminal exposure or a threat to a whole market.
• Publish a weekly regulatory report for the CEO and General Counsel: new notices, open matters, trends and recommended next steps.

Change the rules, state by state

• Track bills and ordinances in our priority states, starting with New Jersey, New York, California and Texas, and flag any short-term rental or health-code bill our language could be added to.
• Keep our model state bill and model city ordinance current.
• Prepare the testimony, one-pagers, fact sheets and talking points our lobbyists and executives use with legislators and staff.
• Reach out directly to selected city planning, code enforcement and health departments to explain our safety standards before a problem starts.
• Manage outside firms and budget.
• Day-to-day manager for our lead lobbying firm, state lobbyists and local zoning counsel: scopes, weekly updates, deadlines and invoices.
• Build and maintain a bench of zoning counsel and lobbyists in each problem state, ready for when a matter escalates.
• Own the regulatory budget against the plan the board approves, and give leadership a clear cost-versus-outcome view before any new engagement is signed.

Build allies

• Represent Swimply in short-term rental coalitions, state chambers of commerce, realtor associations and pool and spa industry groups.
• Recruit and prepare hosts to speak at hearings and council meetings.

Keep us compliant

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