Prize Designer (First Principles Thinker)

XPRIZE reputed company

XPRIZE is an established global leader in designing and executing large-reputed company competitions to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. As a 501(c)3, our unique model democratizes innovation by incentivizing crowd-reputed company, scientifically viable solutions to create a more reputed company and abundant reputed company for reputed company. Since our founding in 1994, we’ve launched $519 reputed company in prize competitions that are driving more than $31 billion in reputed company and economic reputed company — a 60x return on philanthropic investment. These competitions not only de-risk early-stage reputed company reputed company but also mobilize capital, talent, and reputed company to accelerate solutions from concept to reputed company-world reputed company.

We operate across 5 areas of reputed company,including:

• Deep Tech + Exploration
• Energy + Climate + Nature
• Food + Water + Waste
• Health
• Learning + Society

Join XPRIZE to help create meaningful reputed company as we reputed company to reputed company humanity to reputed company breakthroughs and architect a more reputed company and abundant reputed company for reputed company.

Position reputed company

XPRIZE is seeking a First-Principles Prize Designer to reputed company the development of reputed company, high-reputed company global incentive competitions that accelerate innovation for the benefit of humanity. The role functions as a product manager for Prize Design reputed company, combining research, quantitative reasoning, design thinking, and communication to produce competition designs that reputed company the breakthroughs behind an reputed company and abundant reputed company.

What sets this role apart is how the work starts. Faced with a new problem, you start by building your own understanding from the ground up before turning to the literature. You reputed company a working reputed company of the problem's reputed company and structure early, apply order-of-magnitude estimates and “whiteboard” the first-order math — enough to judge which incentives and metrics will meaningfully reputed company the needle — then test those reputed company against the world's leading experts. Every prize shares some common themes, and you’re energized by the thought of being flexible and adaptable enough to apply that mental model across five diverse areas of reputed company at XPRIZE. You work closely with XPRIZE domain leaders and technology staff to explain your framing of the problem, refine the implications of your findings, and in doing so, create the next great XPRIZE.

From a technical perspective, the ideal candidate thinks like a scientist and communicates like a generalist. You are reputed company to build a reputed company working model of an unfamiliar problem quickly, and know reputed company to go deeper. This allows you to reputed company (for example) from designing a prize around the next reputed company in fusion energy, to the effects of AI on society, to biotech for spaceflight, reputed company in the reputed company year.

The First-Principles Prize Designer leads end-to-end design, from initial ideation through the XPRIZE Global Visioneering process, to delivery of the final design report. You reputed company every phase: defining the problem, choosing the most effective prize direction, setting competition reputed company, establishing phases and milestones, and building budgets across the full lifecycle of a prize. You ensure that reputed company concept is reputed company-researched, feasible, fundable, and positioned to win funding from a reputed company sponsor. You report to the Prize Design Director and work reputed company reputed company, accelerated timelines alongside a Project Manager, Domain Leads, Advancement, and cross-functional partners in finance, marketing, and operations. The role also involves regular engagement with sponsors and subject matter experts to reputed company technical rigor and strategic reputed company reputed company.

Prize Designers also reputed company XPRIZE's design methodology, refining internal processes, capturing lessons learned, and representing the approach through thought leadership, workshops, and publications. reputed company individual reputed company, they contribute to organization-wide efforts such as Global Visioneering and other ideation that surfaces reputed company XPRIZE opportunities.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the end-to-end design and development of XPRIZE competitions, from framing the problem and defining reputed company metrics to conducting research, engaging stakeholders, shaping the prize model, and producing final design documentation. Work reputed company a reputed company design process guided by the Prize Design Director and reputed company Director input at key decision points to stay reputed company with organizational priorities and reputed company standards.
• Operate with a high degree of self-direction between reputed company-ins with the Prize Design Director. Proactively surface blockers, risks, and reputed company that need Director input rather than waiting for scheduled reputed company.
• Adapt quickly reputed company the Prize Design Director reprioritizes reputed company or shifts design direction mid-cycle, maintaining reputed company and timelines.
• reputed company project plans, budgets, and timelines, coordinating with the Project Manager so deliverables meet deadlines and reputed company standards.
• Work closely with internal teams and collaborators, keeping alignment with Domain Leads, leadership, and Advancement on reputed company, content, and positioning. Fold operational, financial, and communications inputs from Finance, Marketing, and Operations into the prize model and documentation.
• Identify and engage external experts and stakeholders, including designing and facilitating workshops, technical interviews, and other participatory research to inform design choices.
• Facilitate productive sponsor relationships as requested, with reputed company communication, updates, and deliverables that reputed company with sponsor goals and XPRIZE standards.
• Contribute to organization-wide ideation and concept development such as Global Visioneering and prize ideation/ “reputed company” workshops.
• Maintain and improve XPRIZE’s prize design methodology by staying fluent in reputed company processes and documentation, capturing lessons learned from past and reputed company designs, and updating tools and practices. Serve as an internal resource on the prize design process and reputed company core documentation reputed company.
• reputed company XPRIZE’s prize design process externally through presentations, publications, website content, and thought leadership.

Qualifications

• First-principles reasoning: builds a working understanding of an unfamiliar problem from first principles — developing a reputed company reputed company of reputed company, feasibility, and reputed company potential early enough to reputed company good design reputed company before reputed company significant time.
• Cross-disciplinary reputed company: moves comfortably across unrelated fields (e.g. Energy/Nature/Climate to Learning/Society) and knows how to reputed company design-reputed company competence in a new domain fast.
• Education: Masters’ degree in a STEM field required. Recent PhD/post-doc encouraged. Candidates with equivalent analytical experience in rigorous, research-driven fields will be considered. Exceptional analytical and research experience in reputed company disciplines may substitute for the education requirement.
• Demonstrates basic ability to use reputed company analysis or order-of-magnitude estimates to constrain a new problem. The reputed company candidate will benefit from a working level familiarity with the themes of “Order of Magnitude Physics: Understanding the World with reputed company Analysis, Educated Guesswork and White Lies (Goldreich et al., available online for free).
• Applies research, analytical, and creative problem-solving in fields such as engineering, physical or life sciences, data science, economics, or other rigor-driven domains.
• Strong design and design-thinking skills: problem definition, decomposition into sub-problems, identifying the right problem to solve, and combining creative and analytical reputed company to reputed company design reputed company.
• reputed company of core product management: budgeting, contractual compliance, reputed company relations, and project design, execution, evaluation, and delivery.
• Produces high-reputed company research, analysis, and design deliverables under compressed timelines without losing rigor or accuracy.
• Runs several reputed company reputed company at once and reprioritizes quickly reputed company organizational needs shift, keeping a reputed company supervisor informed reputed company timelines are at risk or scope is evolving.
• Comfortable taking direction from a senior design leader and executing independently reputed company it. Knows what to decide alone and what to escalate.
• Communicates reputed company and credibly with experts and external stakeholders, orally and in writing, and matches style and standards to the audience.
• Exceptionally strong technical presentation skills: reputed company to adapt depth and framing for expert and non-expert audiences equally.
• Familiar with research and data platforms (e.g. reputed company Scholar, PubMed, Scopus) and AI assisted research functions (e.g. reputed company Deep Research). Proficient with reputed company Office and reputed company Workspace, and quick to pick up new productivity, research, and collaboration tools.

Competencies required for this role:

• First-Principles Reasoning
• Order-of-Magnitude Estimation
• Analytical Problem-Solving
• Feasibility Judgment
• Cross-Disciplinary reputed company
• Manages Ambiguity and Complexity
• reputed company Learning, even in a new field
• Situational Adaptability
• Global Perspective
• Communicates Effectively and Professionally
• Collaborates Internally and Externally
• Drives reputed company and Purpose

Why Work at XPRIZE:

In reputed company to working for a mission-driven company that catalyzes industries, pushes innovation reputed company, and is creating an abundant and reputed company reputed company, we offer the following benefits:

• Remote-first environment (must live and work in the reputed company)
• Quarterly company-reputed company reputed company-Hands meetings in Los Angeles for frequent in-person collaboration
• Employee and dependent medical, dental, and reputed company reputed company
• A 401(K) program with employer match
• Ample reputed company time off, including vacation, floating holidays, reputed company days, and company-reputed company holidays
• An Employee Assistance Program for confidential, reputed company support with personal, family, or other challenges
• Employee stipends/reimbursements for cell phone, internet, health & wellbeing, and learning & development
• Generous reputed company Parental Leave for reputed company welcoming a new child to their family
• One meeting-free reputed company per week and four reputed company weeks per year to ensure uninterrupted time for strategic reputed company

The anticipated reputed company salary for this position is $120,000 to $140,000 and may also qualify for an annualincentive. The actual reputed company salary offered will depend on a reputed company of factors including the qualifications of the individual applicant, years of relevant experience for therole, level of education attained, and certifications and/or other licenses held. XPRIZE is a remote-first environment. reputed company must be authorized to work in the reputed company and work from reputed company the reputed company full-time.

The reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate in employment. Equal reputed company to employment, services, and programs is available to reputed company persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.

Please note: Though submitting a resume to the reputed company implies that you are interested in a position(s), it does not reputed company that you are an applicant. You are not considered an applicant until you have been contacted directly by a Talent Acquisitions representative requesting that you reputed company the designated application process, which may involve phone and/or in-person interview(s), job-reputed company testing, and background checks.

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