Director of Regulatory Affairs

Gatewell Group is a Los Angeles compliance firm working the FCC Covered List: vendor-bench diligence, origin evidence, and Conditional Approval filings for manufacturers and the US companies that buy from them. We are hiring a new Director of Regulatory Affairs.

The Director coordinates operations across our regulatory practice lines — equipment authorization, Conditional Approval filings, and the evidence standards behind both — and directs every technical filing the firm makes.

You would set the evidentiary standard, not inherit one.

What you would do

• Direct the technical content of Conditional Approval filings to the FCC and the reviewing agency — DoW for robotics, DoW or DHS for inverters — including per-component BOM origin, supply-chain concentration analysis, and the officer certification package.
• Own agency correspondence. You are the firm's technical voice on the record.
• Set the evidentiary bar for Gatewell Protocol origin-evidence work, and review analyst work product against it.
• Advise clients on equipment-authorization strategy, including permissive-change exposure for already-authorized devices under the Class I/II restrictions and the DA 26-789 software waiver.
• Screen prospective filing engagements. We decline cases we do not believe in, and you would hold that line with us.

Who this is for

• Ten or more years inside FCC equipment authorization. The strongest candidates are former lead reviewers at a Telecommunication Certification Body, former FCC OET staff, or senior certification engineers at an FCC-recognized lab.
• You have read more failed applications than most consultants have read successful ones, and you can say precisely why they failed.
• Working knowledge of 47 CFR Part 2 Subpart J, the KDB publications, and the Covered List framework as it has developed since the December 2025 drone listing.
• You can write for a regulator. Most of this job is written.

Compensation and location

• $150,000 to $185,000, depending on depth of agency experience.
• Full-time, in-house. Los Angeles preferred; remote considered for the right background.
• Client and agency travel as filings require.

We screen every engagement and every hire against OFAC/SDN, and we do not take PRC-nexus work.

To apply

Email [email protected] with Director of Regulatory Affairs in the subject line. A résumé or LinkedIn URL is enough to start. Every application gets a reply.