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Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $330,000–$330,000🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

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

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