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About the Role
This role is foundational to enabling AIWI's mission by developing, maintaining, and executing on the research backlog. You will recruit and manage researchers to answer multi-disciplinary questions related to AI whistleblowing, driving outputs through to publication. This is a key hire as AIWI scales, combining research operations, project management of external experts, and hands-on editorial work.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a clear, current view of the research backlog, ensuring it is structured, prioritized, and visible.
- Translate strategic priorities into concrete, well-scoped research questions.
- Track dependencies and flag when priorities need re-examining.
- Ensure the highest-priority questions are always moving forward.
- Source contractors and fellows and match them to suitable research questions.
- Scope engagements, agree on deliverables and timelines, and manage work through to completion.
- Provide substantive feedback on drafts and keep engagements on track.
- Keep researchers unblocked and delivering on time and at quality.
- Own the draft-to-published pipeline across various formats, including publications, PDF guides, and presentations.
- Edit outputs to a publication-ready standard and ensure they are in the right format for their audience.
- Support the Education Delivery team in distributing finished work to insiders and partner organizations.
- Establish and maintain templates, review processes, and quality bars for the research function.
- Collaborate with the Tech team to build automation for problem discovery, literature review, or network maintenance.
- Maintain a current pool of contractors, fellows, and expert reviewers.
- Surface insights on research focus, recurring questions, and needed contractor profiles.
- Flag areas where the research process can be improved.
- Contribute to AIWI’s thinking on the development of the research agenda.
Requirements
- Excellent judgment on research quality.
- Pragmatism and speed in determining research turnaround times.
- Broad range of research interests, including technical AI safety or AI policy, organizational dynamics, psychology, law, or journalism.
- Collaborative and proactive in developing networks and identifying top researchers.
- Relentlessly resourceful and operationally strong, capable of managing multiple workstreams in parallel.
- Comfortable with hands-on editorial work when needed.
- Track record of managing research projects or programs to completion, including external contractors, fellows, or academic collaborators.
- Skilled in scoping work, spotting deviations, and course-correcting while maintaining relationships.
- Epistemic humility and active seeking of feedback.
- Interest in rapidly gaining an understanding of whistleblowing, legal, and security domains.
- Backgrounds may include: Research manager, program manager, or chief-of-staff at an AI safety, governance, or evaluations organization; Researcher at a frontier company, think tank, or governance organization; Editor or research lead at a policy publication or research outfit; Former researcher at a fundamental strategy hedge-fund; Grantmaker or program officer with an AI safety portfolio.
Skills
- Research operations
- Project management
- Editorial work
- Network development
- Contractor management
- Feedback provision
- Process establishment
- Automation implementation
- Strategic thinking
- Communication
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Foundational hire
- Scaling organization
Benefits
- Impactful work pipeline
- Intellectually stimulating environment
- Independence and ownership
- Growth opportunities
- Supportive team
- Competitive compensation
- Runway secured until 2029
About the Company
- AIWI is an independent non-profit launched in late 2024, currently scaling from ~4 FTE to ~15 FTE within the year.
- The organization is spread across the Bay Area, DC, and London.
- AIWI is funded until 2029.
- Examples of work include leading to the creation of the world's first AI whistleblowing channel, shaping the EU AI Office's channel, and producing online campaigns and guides for company employees.
- AIWI's advocacy has led to policy changes at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
- The organization collaborates closely with leading whistleblowing and AI organizations.
- AIWI's ambition is to ensure that each insider disclosure is maximally impactful and safe for the person making the disclosure.