Senior Programs & Strategy Manager
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Senior Programs & Strategy Manager leading event design and content curation to impact AI safety research. Collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure meaningful programming and events.
Responsibilities:
- Design agendas for FAR.AI’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 move a conversation forward.
- 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 current state of the field and anticipates where it is heading, working with FAR.AI’s in-house research team to pressure-test content decisions.
- Take considered bets on emerging topics and innovative formats, and make the intellectual case for them.
- Own the content framing for each event developing event theory of change documents, briefing notes, and framing materials that give the programme a clear intellectual spine.
- Lead the speaker invitation and engagement process, including drafting outreach, managing speaker preparation, and ensuring speakers are well-positioned to contribute to the event's goals.
- Produce written content that extends the reach of FAR.AI’s events: framing documents, research summaries, speaker briefings, and post-event reports.
- Develop participant strategies for each event, identifying the stakeholders, expertise, and perspectives required to achieve the event's objectives.
- Track which relationships need tending, which conversations should continue, and which outputs are worth pursuing after each event.
- Build and maintain relationships with senior researchers, lab representatives, policymakers, and field-builders across the AI safety ecosystem.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience designing agendas for technical, academic, or policy-focused events; with a track record of programs that were intellectually ambitious, not just well-organized
- Demonstrated ability to translate a strategic goal into a session structure, a speaker list, and a room composition that will actually achieve it
- Sharp instincts about who should be in the room and what the conversation needs; developed through years of working closely with researchers, practitioners, or policymakers
- Genuine familiarity with the AI safety field; its key questions, key players, and current debates
- A track record of original written output event framing documents, research summaries, essays, reports, or equivalent; that demonstrates depth of thinking and a clear point of view
- Proven ability to work with high-status or technical stakeholders and manage complex relationships with care
- Comfortable proposing ideas that feel ambitious or unconventional and making the intellectual case for them to senior people
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. Asana, Coda, Airtable)
- Strong motivation to contribute to AI safety and the future of the field.
Benefits:
- comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- generous paid time off and holidays
- work-related travel and equipment expenses are covered
- catered lunch and dinner at our Berkeley office
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