far.ai - Senior Programs & Strategy Manager

• 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 • Fluency in the AI safety space • Genuine familiarity with the AI safety field; its key questions, key players, and current debates; at a level where you can assess speaker quality, identify agenda gaps, and hold your own with senior researchers • You do not need a technical research background, but you need to have engaged seriously with the field and to understand why the work matters • Content production • 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 • Able to translate complex technical or policy conversations into something a funder or decision-maker can act on, without losing the substance • Stakeholder management • 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 • 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 each. • Willing to take a hands-on operational role when needed, contributing wherever necessary to ensure successful delivery. • Collaborative and low-ego, with the ability to work closely with colleagues across teams while maintaining clear ownership and accountability for outcomes. • Project management tools & systems • Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. Asana, Coda, Airtable) • Experience building or improving CRM processes and communications systems in a team that is scaling. • Mission alignment • Strong motivation to contribute to AI safety and the future of the field. • 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. • You will be a full-time employee of FAR.AI, 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 trip per month. • Compensation: $115,000-$175,000 per year depending on experience and location. Work-related travel and equipment expenses are covered. In-person staff receive catered lunch and dinner at our Berkeley office. • Benefits: comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off and holidays, and a range of other benefits. • Our hiring process includes an initial application review, calls with the hiring manager, and paid 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 [email protected].