Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

The Standards Analyst will lead the development, documentation, and ongoing evolution of the Youth AI Safety Institute's AI safety standards for youth-facing AI products and platforms. This role requires deep expertise, strong organizational capacity, and exceptional judgment, working in close partnership with the Head of AI & Digital Assessments. The analyst must possess grounding in child and adolescent development, youth mental health, or a related clinical field to effectively consume expert input and identify critical questions.

Responsibilities

Draft, refine, and maintain the Institute's AI safety standards for youth-facing AI products and platforms in collaboration with the Head of AI & Digital Assessments.
Translate research, expert input, and evaluation experience into clear, structured, and publicly accessible standards documentation.
Continually evolve standards in response to new evidence, emerging AI capabilities, expert feedback, and lessons from the Institute's assessment and evaluation work.
Ensure standards are internally consistent, appropriately scoped, and reflective of the Institute's mission and methodological commitments.
Participate actively in structured input processes, including expert convenings, working group sessions, and comment processes, as a listener, questioner, and note taker.
Synthesize input from a broad range of sources into coherent standards positions, clearly documenting points of consensus, disagreement, and rationale for decisions.
Maintain ongoing familiarity with the perspectives of key experts and organizations in AI safety, child development, education, mental health, and related fields.
Communicate the Institute's standards positions clearly to diverse external audiences, including researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Work closely with technical evaluators to ensure that Institute standards are translated into testable, reproducible rubrics and evaluation protocols.
Identify gaps between standards and operationalization, and work with the Head of AI & Digital Assessments to address them.
Maintain alignment between standards documentation and published evaluation work.
Maintain rigorous documentation of the standards development process, including input gathering, decision-making, and evolution.
Draft and maintain public-facing standards documentation that is accurate, accessible, and suitable for a broad audience.
Produce process documentation, version histories, and methodology summaries for external stakeholder engagement.
Manage timelines, workflows, and deliverables across multiple simultaneous standards development tracks.
Brief the Head of AI & Digital Assessments regularly on progress, emerging issues, and decisions requiring escalation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred.
Candidates with graduate training in developmental psychology, clinical psychology, public health, or a related field are strongly encouraged to apply.
4–6 years of experience in policy development, standards-setting, regulatory affairs, research, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience contributing to formal standards, guidelines, frameworks, or policy documents in a multi-stakeholder environment.
Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex, competing inputs into clear, well-reasoned documentation.
Proven ability to engage productively with diverse stakeholder groups while maintaining organizational independence and integrity.
Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage complex, multi-track workstreams with many moving parts.
Experience in AI safety, technology policy, or emerging technology governance is preferred.
Experience working with or alongside clinical or research professionals in child/adolescent mental health, developmental psychology, or pediatric health settings is preferred.
Familiarity with standards-setting bodies, technical working groups, or multi-stakeholder governance processes is preferred.
Experience translating qualitative standards into operational evaluation criteria or rubrics is preferred.
Knowledge of AI evaluation methodologies, red-teaming practices, or platform safety assessment is preferred.
Experience working in mission-driven organizations navigating complex external relationships is preferred.
Proactively drives work forward, anticipates needs, and surfaces issues early, while operating within clear lines of oversight and accountability.
Brings critical thinking and structured reasoning to complex, ambiguous problems without clean answers.
Exercises strong professional judgment within defined parameters; knows when to escalate and when to execute.
Absorbs complex, sometimes conflicting input from varied sources and translates it into coherent, well-documented positions.
Translates nuanced, contested, or technically complex material into documentation that is accessible and actionable.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving field where the standards themselves are still being defined.
Common Sense Media will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Job offers are made on the condition that the applicant subsequently passes a criminal background check.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Skills

Policy development
Standards-setting
Regulatory affairs
Research
Written communication
Stakeholder engagement
Project management
AI safety
Technology policy
Emerging technology governance
Child/adolescent mental health
Developmental psychology
Pediatric health
Standards-setting bodies
Technical working groups
Multi-stakeholder governance processes
AI evaluation methodologies
Red-teaming practices
Platform safety assessment
Critical thinking
Structured reasoning
Independent judgment
Active listening
Synthesis
Clarity under complexity
Adaptability

Location

San Francisco, California

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

4–6 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Advanced degree preferred
Graduate training in developmental psychology, clinical psychology, public health, or a related field encouraged

Salary/Compensations

$90,000.00 - $110,000.00

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
Matching 401(k)
Other key benefits
Work/life balance

About the Company

Common Sense Media is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing research-backed information, education, and independent voice. They rate, educate, and advocate for policies to protect and prepare kids online. Their ratings, research, and resources reach over 150 million users globally, 1.4 million educators, and over 100,000 schools worldwide annually.
The Youth AI Safety Institute, launched in May 2026, is Common Sense Media's newest programmatic pillar. It establishes safety standards, builds open-source evaluations for AI models, independently tests AI products, and publishes results for transparency and accountability. It serves as an independent research and testing ground to ensure AI used by children is safe and developmentally appropriate.

Equal Opportunity

Common Sense Media provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected classification or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Common Sense Media will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
However, job offers are made on the condition that the applicant subsequently passes a criminal background check.
If the background check indicates a prior criminal conviction, an individualized assessment will be conducted to determine whether the conviction should result in denial of employment.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.