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About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Manager to join our Special Projects team and work across a variety of high-priority initiatives for CAIS. Special Projects sits close to leadership and takes on the highest-priority, least-defined problems across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Turn a fuzzy mandate or priority from leadership into a scoped plan, timeline, and set of concrete deliverables, defining owners, sequencing dependencies, and managing moving pieces across teams, agencies, and partners.
- Design and stand up new processes, systems, or programs that don't yet exist at CAIS, building operating cadences and repeatable mechanisms.
- Lead scaling and go-to-market efforts for new initiatives, from initial strategy through execution and iteration.
- Dig into data to diagnose problems, size opportunities, and make the case for a course of action.
- Partner directly with leadership and cross-functional teams as a trusted operator on their highest-priority problems.
- Influence without authority: pre-wire decisions, surface risks early, and manage trade-offs to keep cross-functional work moving.
- Own governance and reporting on the initiatives you run, maintaining a clear view of program health and keeping leadership informed.
- Use data and retrospectives to improve outcomes over time and turn successful approaches into reusable systems and playbooks.
- Move between projects as priorities shift, re-scoping and re-prioritizing without losing momentum.
Requirements
- Have 4 to 6 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, business strategy, GTM strategy, program management, or a strategy/operations role at a high-growth company.
- Have a track record of taking projects from an ambiguous starting point to a finished outcome with limited guidance.
- Manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Are comfortable moving across very different problems and picking up context quickly.
- Are strong with data: you can structure an analysis, build a model, and use it to drive a decision.
- Are skilled at turning strategy into concrete processes and execution plans, with demonstrated systems thinking.
- Have excellent program management and operational judgment.
- Have experience scaling a team, function, or program, and/or launching something into market.
- Have a bias toward speed and a high bar for quality.
- Communicate excellently, in writing and in person, and can distill complexity and trade-offs for leadership and non-specialist audiences.
- Have consistently good judgment under uncertainty, making sound decisions with incomplete information.
- Care genuinely about AI safety and CAIS's mission, with the willingness to develop deep domain knowledge.
Skills
- Management consulting
- Investment banking
- Business strategy
- GTM strategy
- Program management
- Strategy/operations
- Data analysis
- Modeling
- Systems thinking
- Operational judgment
- Scaling
- Market launch
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Judgment under uncertainty
- Domain knowledge (AI safety)
- SQL (nice to have)
- Data querying (nice to have)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $200,000 a year
Benefits
- Health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401K plan + 4% matching
- Unlimited PTO
- Lunch and dinner at the office
- Annual Professional Development Stipend
- Access to some of the top talent working on technical and conceptual research in AI safety
About the Company
- The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI.
- Some of our past achievements include: releasing the most widely used measure of AI capabilities used by all major AI companies, running a large compute cluster to facilitate AI safety research which has been cited over 24,000 times, and publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and top AI CEOs.
- CAIS is scaling quickly across Research, Public Engagement, and Policy, and our operational infrastructure needs to keep pace.
Equal Opportunity
- The Center for AI Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- In alignment with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact contact@safe.ai.
- We value diversity and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.