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About the Role
CAIS builds the field of AI safety by bringing together researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals through fellowships, workshops, convenings, speaker series, and educational courses. This role will run these programs at a high bar and help make them repeatable, reporting to the Senior Manager, Programs.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Manager, Programs to turn program goals into concrete plans, including audience, format, participants, timeline, and budget.
- Conduct preliminary research for new programs to clarify goals and requirements.
- Recruit and select participants, speakers, and facilitators, and build agendas and formats that lead to productive conversations and lasting connections.
- Independently gather context in new domains by consulting experts, reviewing research, and using available resources.
- Own program delivery end to end and ensure each program meets the agreed scope, timeline, and quality expectations.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks, address challenges proactively, and escalate critical issues to the Senior Manager as needed.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive program documentation and reporting, including setting up and maintaining program details in our project management software.
- Manage relationships with external partners, vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure program requirements are met.
- Track program budgets and expenses and keep spending aligned with financial goals.
- Coordinate cross-functional teammates and external partners to deliver programs.
- Delegate tasks to contractors, partners, or program support staff where appropriate, with clear guidance and follow-through.
- Run post-program evaluation and document what worked so programs can be repeated and improved.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience running programs that convene people, such as fellowships, workshops, conferences, speaker series, or community or educational programs, including owning delivery end to end.
- Experience managing multiple programs or workstreams at once, with sound prioritization across them.
- Strong project planning skills: timelines, budgets, milestones, and the follow-through to keep everyone on track.
- Experience managing a diverse set of stakeholders, including external partners and vendors.
- The ability to get up to speed quickly in unfamiliar domains by learning from experts, papers, and other sources.
- Agility when internal or external factors shift, and the judgment to know when to adjust course and when to escalate.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Conscientiousness and a high bar for quality.
- A genuine understanding of why AI safety matters, and the ability to explain it in your own words.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Existing relationships in the AI safety, AI research, or AI policy community (Nice to Have).
- Experience in a research organization, AI or technology company, or policy or field-building organization (Nice to Have).
- Experience at an early-stage or fast-growing mission-driven organization (Nice to Have).
Skills
- Program Management
- Project Planning
- Budget Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Mitigation
- Documentation
- Communication (Written and Verbal)
- AI Safety Understanding
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site (5 days/week)
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience running programs
- Manager
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 - $150,000 annually
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
- Referral Program ($1,500 bonus)
About the Company
- The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI.
- Past achievements include releasing the most widely used measure of AI capabilities, running a large compute cluster for AI safety research, and publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by prominent AI leaders.
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.
- We value diversity and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.