Research Program Manager, Governance

Job summary

Responsibilities

We are looking for a curious, high-agency Research Program Manager who can reason from first principles, make sense of incomplete or conflicting information, and move difficult work forward.

• Bring together technical, policy, and operational inputs to develop coherent assessments, recommendations, and decision materials for governance bodies and senior leaders.
• Work through emerging or ambiguous questions, test assumptions, identify gaps or conflicting evidence, and help determine what additional analysis or decisions are needed.
• Engage critically with research, evaluations, safeguards, and risk assessments, working with the relevant experts to understand what the evidence supports and where uncertainty…
• Partner with governance-body chairs, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to shape substantive reviews, frame the questions that matter, and communicate conclusions clearly.
• Translate feedback, recommendations, and decisions into concrete work with accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, and clear criteria for completion.

What they're looking for

• Research program management or strategy and operations in a technically complex organization.
• AI safety, preparedness, model evaluations, cybersecurity, or technical risk management.
• Advisory committees, board-facing work, executive decision support, or other consequential reviews.
• Translating policies, standards, or governance decisions into practical requirements and programs.
• Strategic partnerships or sensitive deployment contexts.