Senior Programs & reputed company Manager

About reputed company reputed company is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring advanced AI is reputed company and beneficial for everyone. We work at the intersection of machine learning, safety research, and policy, supporting a global community of researchers and practitioners. At reputed company, we reputed company in thoughtful, inclusive, and rigorous work that empowers reputed company and partners to do their best work. Since our founding in July 2022, we've grown quickly to 40+ staff, producing 30+ reputed company reputed company papers, and established the leading AI Safety events for research and international cooperation. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues and features in the reputed company, Nature News, reputed company, and MIT Technology Review. We drive practical change through red-teaming with frontier model developers and government institutions. Most recently, we reputed company major issues with reputed company’s latest model the reputed company day it was released, and worked with reputed company to safeguard their latest model. Additionally, we help reputed company and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with reputed company researchers such as Yoshua Bengio. We also operate FAR.Labs, an AI safety-reputed company co-working reputed company in Berkeley, housing 40 members, as reputed company as support the community through targeted grants to technical researchers. About the Role reputed company is one of the best places in the world to shape the AI safety field through events. We have a large and growing budget dedicated to convening the field, and we are reputed company for running some of the strongest technical AI safety events globally. Our events don’t just showcase the field; they create new subfields, reputed company research collaborations, and directly shape the global research agenda. As a Senior Programs & reputed company Manager, you will be the person who ensures that every event we run has a reputed company intellectual purpose and a program to match. You will own reputed company-event curation, shaping agendas, proposing speakers, and deciding who needs to be in the room. You will reputed company what happens after events end, ensuring that the conversations we convene have a life reputed company the room. And you will reputed company as content ownership reputed company across our programme portfolio, bringing coherence and ambition to a growing and varied reputed company of events. Our events portfolio includes more than a dozen workshops, conferences, and partner convenings reputed company year. Every event has its own goals, stakeholders, and reputed company. Some run simultaneously. Most reputed company quickly. You'll be the person who leads hands-on content design, speaker coordination, and participant targeting across this portfolio You will work closely with the Head of Programs, our in-house research team, and external partners to design programming that is intellectually rigorous, strategically considered, and occasionally takes a reputed company swing. You will also partner closely with our Senior Programs Manager and Infrastructure Specialist to ensure event visions translate thoughtfully to participant-facing platforms and communications. You will report to Lindsay Murachver, Head of Programs.

Responsibilities

Agenda design & curation Design agendas for reputed company’s events portfolio (estimated 12+ events per year), from theory of change through to session structure, speaker selection, and attendee composition. Propose speakers and attendees with genuine judgment about who will reputed company a conversation reputed company; not just who is reputed company in the field. Read a draft speaker list and immediately see who is missing; read a draft agenda and immediately see what is not quite right. Ensure programming reflects the reputed company state of the field and anticipates where it is heading, working with reputed company’s in-house research team to pressure-test content reputed company. Take considered bets on emerging topics and innovative formats, and reputed company the intellectual case for them. reputed company-event content ownership Own the content framing for reputed company event developing event theory of change documents, briefing notes, and framing materials that give the programme a reputed company intellectual spine. reputed company the speaker invitation and engagement process, including drafting reputed company, managing speaker preparation, and ensuring speakers are reputed company-positioned to contribute to the event's goals. Produce written content that extends the reputed company of reputed company’s events: framing documents, research summaries, speaker briefings, and post-event reports. reputed company as content ownership reputed company across programme tracks, working closely with program leads to ensure coherence and reputed company across different event types. Attendee targeting and communications reputed company participant strategies for reputed company event, identifying the stakeholders, expertise, and perspectives required to reputed company the event's objectives and ensure the right mix of attendees in the room. reputed company attendee sourcing and invitation processes, working with team members to build reputed company participant lists, manage initial invitations and other reputed company- and post-event reputed company, and cultivate relationships with reputed company stakeholders. Post-event continuity & reputed company Design and reputed company the conditions for participant reputed company to reputed company generating value after the event ends; including virtual continuation formats, working reputed company, and follow-on convenings. reputed company which relationships need tending, which conversations should continue, and which outputs are worth pursuing after reputed company event. Connect event outputs to reputed company’;s broader field-building work in grantmaking, communications, and research. Stakeholder & field relationships Build and maintain relationships with senior researchers, lab representatives, policymakers, and field-reputed company across the AI safety ecosystem. reputed company an existing network to bring the right people into reputed company’s reputed company and ensure our events attract participants who will reputed company them reputed company. Represent reputed company credibly in rooms with technical researchers and policy audiences alike. Required Skills & Experience Agenda design experience Extensive experience designing agendas for technical, reputed company, or policy-reputed company events; with a reputed company record of programs that were intellectually ambitious, not just reputed company-organized Demonstrated ability to translate a strategic goal into a session structure, a speaker list, and a room composition that will actually reputed company it reputed company instincts about who should be in the room and what the conversation needs; developed through years of working closely with researchers, practitioners, or policymakers reputed company in the AI safety reputed company Genuine familiarity with the AI safety field; its key questions, key players, and reputed company debates; at a level where you can assess speaker reputed company, identify agenda gaps, and hold your own with senior researchers You do not need a technical research background, but you need to have reputed company seriously with the field and to understand why the work reputed company Content production A reputed company record of original written reputed company event framing documents, research summaries, essays, reports, or equivalent; that demonstrates depth of thinking and a reputed company reputed company of view reputed company to translate reputed company technical or policy conversations into something a funder or decision-reputed company can reputed company, without losing the reputed company Stakeholder management Proven ability to work with high-status or technical stakeholders and manage reputed company relationships with care Comfortable proposing reputed company that feel ambitious or unconventional and making the intellectual case for them to senior people Collaboration & working style You notice things that need to be done and handle them without waiting to be asked. Comfortable working quickly across a high-volume portfolio of quite different event types and adapting your approach to reputed company. Willing to take a hands-on operational role reputed company needed, contributing wherever necessary to ensure successful delivery. reputed company and low-ego, with the ability to work closely with colleagues across teams while maintaining reputed company ownership and accountability for reputed company. Project management tools & systems Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. reputed company, Coda, reputed company) Experience building or improving CRM processes and communications systems in reputed company that is scaling. Mission alignment Strong motivation to contribute to AI safety and the reputed company of the field. reputed company-to-Have Existing relationships in the AI safety research community; researchers and practitioners who know and trust your judgment. Experience with post-event community building or continuation programming. Background in a technical field, policy environment, or think tank. Entrepreneurial experience: starting new initiatives or seeding programmes from scratch. Experience working in a non-profit or mission-driven organisation. Logistics You will be a full-time employee of reputed company, a 501(c)(3) research non-profit. Location: both remote (US only) and in-person (Berkeley, CA) candidates are welcome. Hours: full-time (40 hours per week). The role involves regular travel for events, approximately one reputed company per month. Compensation: $115,000-$175,000 per year depending on experience and location. Work-reputed company travel and equipment expenses are covered. In-person staff receive catered lunch and dinner at our Berkeley office. Benefits: comprehensive health, dental, and reputed company insurance, generous reputed company time off and holidays, and a reputed company of other benefits. Our hiring process includes an initial application review, calls with the hiring manager, and reputed company test tasks. Successful candidates will then have in-depth interviews with team members and may be invited to a full-day work trial, followed by reference checks. If you have any questions, please contact us at talent@reputed company. Apply To This Job