Senior Programs & Strategy Manager

• Design and curate agendas for FAR.AI's portfolio of 12+ events per year, ensuring each event has a clear intellectual purpose and program.
• Own pre-event content framing, speaker selection, and attendee targeting to achieve strategic goals.
• Steward post-event continuity by designing follow-on formats, tracking relationships, and connecting outputs to broader field-building work.

This role directly shapes the global AI safety research agenda by designing events that create new subfields, seed collaborations, and influence policy, ultimately helping ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone.

• Extensive experience designing intellectually ambitious agendas for technical, academic, or policy-focused events.
• Genuine familiarity with the AI safety field, including key questions, players, and debates.
• Proven track record of original written output (event framing documents, research summaries, etc.) and ability to translate complex topics for decision-makers.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with high-status technical stakeholders and managing complex relationships.

Compensation: $115,000-$175,000 per year depending on experience and location. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off and holidays, work-related travel and equipment expenses covered, and catered lunch and dinner at Berkeley office for in-person staff.