Head of Groups
- Compensation
- $140K–$195K / yr
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- C level
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experienced with university groups firsthand. You’ve organized an AI safety university group (or similar), run programs that support them, or worked closely with the organizer ecosystem. We expect the
- AI safety context. You have views on how fieldbuilding translates into impact, and enough context on the ecosystem to judge which groups, organizers, and bets are promising.
- Strong judgment about people. Much of the job is deciding which organizers to back and who to hire, often with limited evidence.
- Ambitious and high agency. You’re excited to push this work well past its current size and quality bar. You’ll own the portfolio from day one, and should be comfortable building a vision, executing on
- Mission-aligned. You care deeply about the risks from advanced AI, and you think university groups are one of the most promising ways to help reduce them.
Full description
Own Kairos’s support for AI safety university groups and make it far more ambitious.
We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
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About Kairos
Kairos is a nonprofit accelerating talent into AI safety and policy. In just over two years, we’ve trained 1,200+ people through our flagship programs:
- SPAR: The largest AI safety research fellowship, with 800+ mentees per round mentored by researchers from Anthropic, Redwood Research, RAND, MIT, the UK AI Security Institute, and others.
- Generator Residency: In partnership with Constellation, a platform for generalist talent to pitch, build, and ship projects that build capacity and infrastructure across the AI safety ecosystem, with advisors from METR, Redwood Research, AI Futures Project, and more.
- Global Challenges Project: A workshop series introducing promising students to careers in AI safety and biosecurity, run several times a year across Oxford, Boston, and Berkeley.
- Pathfinder Fellowship: Helping grow the global network of AI safety university groups from a few dozen to nearly 100, with $9.5M in funding over the next two years to support their work.
We see ourselves as a portfolio of highly impactful projects in a fast-evolving field. Over the next six months, we expect to double in size and launch several new initiatives addressing critical gaps in the ecosystem.
The Role
University groups are where many people first get involved in AI safety, and Kairos provides most of the support these groups get today. Through the Pathfinder Fellowship, we provide mentorship and funding to organizers of AI safety university groups around the world, and through OASIS we bring top organizers together for in-person workshops. Over the past year, this work has grown from a fraction of our time to one of our core priorities, and we’re now building a team around it.
We’re looking for a Head of Groups to own this area as a whole and make it more ambitious. You’d set the strategy for how we plan to support AI safety university groups, decide which new initiatives we pursue, and build the team behind them. You would report to Neav Topaz (co-director).
It’d be up to you what the groups team pursues, but we’re weighing several ambitious directions, like hiring full-time organizers in key regions, running residencies for top organizers, seeding new groups at strong universities we’re not yet reaching, and giving the strongest groups much more hands-on support.
What You’ll Do
- Set the strategy for how we support university groups. You’ll decide where the work goes next, how our programs fit together, and what we should start, stop, or scale.