Public AI Fellow, Open Source
Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance and a community of research and practice gathered around the mission to cultivate tools, practices, and communities to enable self-governance in the digital age. It operates as a nonprofit research organization.
About Metagov
Metagov's mission is to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Their vision is to work toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. Metagov was founded in 2019 and spun out as an independent nonprofit in January 2020. Their original goal was to describe, support, and expand the right to self-governance in online communities, which is enabled and circumscribed by the platform's architecture. Metagovernance describes two related roles: (1) enabling and constraining users’ ability to create their own institutions, and (2) governing the interaction between separate institutions, from small chat groups to billion-dollar blockchain protocols. The community primarily convenes online in the Metagov Slack to coordinate projects, discuss research in online governance, plan seminars, convene governance experiments, collaborate with other organizations, and advance research outputs.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and steward relationships across the open-source AI community, convening contributors, maintainers, and projects to advance public-interest goals. You will operate and maintain a CRM of contributors, design and run convenings and working sessions, project-manage cross-organizational collaborations, make introductions that connect people and projects, support contributor onboarding and community engagement on GitHub, and strengthen open-source presence at conferences and community spaces.
Requirements
- Existing relationships in the open-source AI community
- Strong project management and coordination instincts
- Comfort running and maintaining a CRM or equivalent system
- Genuine community-building energy
- Working familiarity with the open-source AI stack including foundation models, inference, fine-tuning, and evaluation
- Familiarity with public-interest questions such as AI governance, digital sovereignty, and openness debates
- Comfort convening and elevating others rather than self-promotion
- Bonus if you have organized an open-source community, foundation, working group, or recurring convening
- Bonus if you have worked across multiple open-source projects
- Bonus if you have an existing platform or following in the open-source AI world
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain relationships with open-source AI builders, maintainers, and contributors
- Operate and maintain a CRM of open-source AI contacts
- Design and implement convenings, working sessions, and shared collaboration spaces
- Project-manage cross-organizational collaborations and track commitments
- Connect people and projects through targeted introductions
- Strengthen open-source presence at conferences and in community spaces
- Support contributor onboarding and community engagement on GitHub