Head of Policy Design Societal Harms

Skills

About the Role

You will lead and develop managers and teams covering consumer-harm areas. You will coordinate policy decisions, set mitigation strategy, prioritize resources, escalate high-severity risks, and partner with engineering, data science, product, legal, research, regulators, and external experts to implement and improve safeguards.

Requirements

• Experience leading teams, including managers or senior specialists, in AI safety, product policy, or a related field
• Applied familiarity with child safety, mental health and well-being, manipulation, election integrity, or related consumer harms
• Experience collaborating across teams with distributed ownership
• Understanding of frontier-model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and launch processes
• Experience translating policy positions into enforceable and measurable mechanisms
• Ability to communicate with technical, non-technical, and executive audiences
• Judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence decisions
• Comfort with exposure to explicit sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing content

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop managers and teams responsible for consumer harms
• Coordinate and track policy decisions across harm areas
• Set mitigation strategy across policies, detection, enforcement, and product interventions
• Prioritize resources and communicate tradeoffs to leadership
• Escalate and respond to high-severity or ambiguous consumer-harms decisions
• Partner across the model development cycle to represent consumer-harms considerations
• Engage external experts, civil society organizations, and regulators
• Translate external engagement into stronger policy and enforcement

Benefits

• Visa sponsorship
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours