SaferAI is hiring its first Research Program Manager to help our research teams do their best work. This is not a technical research-lead role; subject-matter leads will continue to own intellectual direction and technical mentorship. Your role will be to build the people, planning, feedback, and execution systems that help researchers sustain high-quality work across risk modeling, standards, frontier AI risk management, and policy.
SaferAI works to reduce large-scale AI risks by building the governance and technical infrastructure for effective AI risk management. We work across four integrated areas: frontier AI risk management, risk modeling, technical standards, and policy. Our ability to operate across all four areas simultaneously is what makes our impact greater than the sum of its parts.
We are headquartered in Paris, with a presence in London, and further team members are working remotely. Our team includes computer scientists, physicists, engineers, policy experts, and risk management professionals — people who have chosen to work on a hard, urgent problem and who hold each other to high standards.
We believe that excellent research requires both brilliant epistemic direction and structured operational support. For optimal impact, our subject-matter leads should be able to focus on intellectual direction, methodology, and technical mentorship. As we scale, we now seek to build out the operational and human support that lets them do exactly that. In this role, your primary objective will be supporting our leadership team (Executive Director and COO) to guide and support our research teams.
In this role, you will partner closely with subject-matter leads to create the conditions for strong research execution: clear operating cadences, useful feedback infrastructure, project visibility, and effective researcher support systems. You will also serve as a trusted point of contact for researchers on workload, growth, and team-health issues, with clear norms around confidentiality, escalation, and decision rights.
You may thrive in this role if you combine strong judgment, low ego, and a genuine interest in helping research teams do excellent work. Strong candidates might come from AI safety research, research operations, consulting, startup operations, technical program management, or mission-driven research organizations. We are especially interested in candidates with a clear anchor in project/program execution, people leadership, or research-domain fluency, together with the curiosity and adaptability to grow across the rest of the role.
People Management & Team Health (40%): help attract, develop, and retain talent and support them to achieve maximum impact sustainably.
Career Development: Work with researchers to define their career trajectories, identify skill gaps, and facilitate access to training, conferences, or external mentorship.
Project & Program Management (40%): Act as a force multiplier and help the organization’s talent deliver on our theory of change for maximal impact.
Special Projects (20%): Support cross-cutting initiatives as the organization grows
Location: SaferAI’s major locations are Paris and London, and we have a preference for this position to be based in either of the two cities. We are willing to consider remote arrangements for an exceptionally strong candidate.
Compensation: Competitive salary, commensurate with experience and location.
Benefits:
To apply for this position, please complete this application form. We will evaluate candidates on a rolling basis starting now until we fill the role. We are aiming to fill the role quickly, and we’ll take down the page on our website as soon as the role is filled.
Our hiring process comes in stages and usually consists of initial screening, a first interview, a paid work test, interviews, and a final 3-day paid work trial where you would directly collaborate with the team.
We encourage you to lean towards applying, even if you don’t have all the skills and experience required.
If you have any questions or concerns throughout the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at careers@safer-ai.org. We look forward to reviewing your application.