Special Projects Manager

About the role

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI. We address AI's toughest challenges through technical research, field-building initiatives, and policy engagement, along with our other organization, Center for AI Safety Action Fund. The Special Projects Manager partners closely with the Executive Director and Managing Director to identify, evaluate, and launch new initiatives at the earliest stages of CAIS's project pipeline. You'll lead the full lifecycle-investigating new opportunities, drafting clear project briefs, building timelines and budgets, and driving delivery through our project-management system. Along the way, you'll coordinate researchers, vendors, and other stakeholders, monitor risks, and keep leadership informed with crisp documentation and reporting. This hands-on role sits at CAIS's "discovery" frontier, turning ambitious AI-safety concepts into concrete results with speed, rigor, and constant attention to mission alignment. AI-safety communication is at a genuine inflection point. AI safety videos, articles, and social posts are now reaching millions, and public curiosity is compounding by the week. CAIS aims to harness this surge by spinning up several high-leverage projects on an accelerated timeline. Know someone who could be a great fit for this role? Submit their details through our Referral Form. If we end up hiring your referral, you'll receive a $1,500 bonus once they've been with CAIS for 90 days. The Center for AI Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. In alignment with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact contact@safe.ai. We value diversity and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

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