Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms
Core
Lead policy design for AI safety, defining boundaries and mitigations for consumer harms like child safety, manipulation, and election integrity in frontier AI models.
Role type
Senior leadership IC (Head of Policy Design)
Builds
Policy frameworks, detection/enforcement systems, and product interventions for AI safety
Domain
Generative AI safety, AI policy, consumer protection
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Team leadership (managing managers), AI safety expertise, cross-functional collaboration, policy-to-mechanism translation, strategic prioritization, high-stakes decision making
Preferred skills
Subject matter expertise in harm areas (child safety, mental health, election integrity), model training/research experience, generative AI safety systems experience, external stakeholder engagement, agentic AI tool usage
Technologies
LLM-based classification, evaluation, or enforcement pipelines
Responsibilities
Lead and grow teams responsible for consumer harms portfolio; coordinate policy decisions across the portfolio; set strategy for mitigations complementing model training; prioritize resources across competing harm areas; serve as escalation point for high-severity harms; partner with engineering, data science, product, legal, and research; engage external experts, civil society, and regulators
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership