Senior Counsel, Legislative & Regulatory Affairs

Public Storage is seeking a Senior Counsel / Counsel Legislative & Regulatory Affairs to help lead the companys response to an increasingly complex legislative and regulatory environment. This is a new highly visible role supporting a national consumer-facing business at a time of significant growth regulatory scrutiny and operational complexity.

This individual will work closely with Legal Operations Compliance Revenue Management Marketing Call Center Insurance/Risk and senior business leaders to monitor interpret and help shape legislative and regulatory developments affecting Public Storage and the self-storage industry.  You will engage in regulatory advocacy state and federal rulemaking legislative strategy trade association work/engagement and other government-facing matters. 

The ideal candidate will bring strong legal judgment and a working understanding of how legislative and regulatory processes affect business operations.

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys working across legal business and policy issues; can move comfortably between detail-oriented statutory analysis and executive-level guidance; and wants to help build a scalable legislative and regulatory affairs function for a national business. The role will support strategy in areas including consumer protection pricing advertising/marketing operations competition issues and state self-storage laws.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor assess and advise on federal state and local legislative and regulatory developments affecting Public Storage and the self-storage industry.
• Help develop and execute advocacy strategies on legislation rulemaking regulatory proposals and other government-facing matters.
• Suggest alternative language exceptions and modifications to material legislation and coordinate with lobbyists trade associations outside counsel consultants and other external resources.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to evaluate operational impact and develop practical compliance strategies.
• Support company responses to proposed legislation rulemaking activity regulatory inquiries and other government-facing matters.
• Work with trade associations outside counsel consultants and government affairs to advance the companys legislative and regulatory priorities.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory developments into clear actionable guidance for business leaders.
• Support integration and compliance planning related to acquisitions new jurisdictions and business expansion.
• Advise on emerging issues involving consumer protection pricing marketing operations call center practices lien laws insurance/risk and related regulatory matters.
• Help build scalable processes for tracking escalating and responding to legislative and regulatory developments.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• 8 years of relevant legal legislative regulatory government affairs or public policy experience.
• Experience with or willingness to develop familiarity with campaign finance lobbying gift ethics and related political law requirements.
• Experience interpreting statutes regulations proposed legislation administrative rules and regulatory guidance.
• Experience working with or before legislatures regulators attorneys general agencies trade associations or government affairs organizations.
• Strong judgment executive presence and ability to advise senior business leaders.
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced multi-jurisdictional environment.
• Practical business-oriented approach to legal and regulatory risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Curiosity adaptability and willingness to develop subject-matter expertise in new and evolving regulatory areas.

Preferred Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.

Additional Information :

Workplace

• One of our values pillars is to work as One Team and we believe that there is no replacement for in-person collaboration but understand the value of some flexibility. Public Storage teammates are expected to work in the office five days each week with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month. 

Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

**Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting.  Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without restrictions or requiring sponsorship now or in the future. We do not provide training plans or support for F-1 OPT STEM OPT extensions or future visa sponsorship.**

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time