ABOUT BEZOS ACADEMY

At Bezos Academy, we believe all children deserve the great start that excellent early education provides, including in under-resourced communities. Our mission is to nurture the potential in every child to become a creative leader, original thinker, and lifelong learner by inventing the solutions needed to scale early childhood education. We are a unique organization that realizes our mission in two distinct ways. First, we operate a multi-state network of schools in under-resourced communities, offering quality Montessori preschool at no cost to families. Second, we invest in creating tools, products, technology, and other solutions designed to reach children well beyond the walls of our schools. We aspire to have a profound, large-scale impact on children ages zero to five.

DESCRIPTION

As the Senior User Experience Researcher (UXR) for a new direct‑to‑consumer initiative at Bezos Academy, you will play a defining role in how we understand parents, families, and early learners. Focusing on parent and caregiver-facing experiences, you will uncover how software and AI can meaningfully support them and early childhood development. You will help build a new venture from the ground up by leading and executing research that directly informs product strategy and feature priorities.

You will work closely with designers, product managers, and curriculum experts to conduct studies, synthesize insights, and create shared clarity across the team. From exploration to launch and iteration, your work will guide what we build, why we build it, and how it comes to life. Your research will help ensure we are giving parents thoughtful, guided support as they navigate the early years of parenthood, with product experiences grounded in how babies, toddlers, and parents learn during the most critical years of brain development. This is an opportunity to lead our user research practices and shape a product alongside a mission‑driven team committed to meaningful impact for families and young children. More than anything, we are looking for someone excited by the opportunity to shape products at the frontier of where technology, learning science, and family life intersect.  

LOCATION

• Seattle, WA
• This role is expected to work in-person with other product team members in our office in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle at least two days a week.
• Relocation support is available for those willing to relocate to Seattle, WA

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, salaried position.
• The full salary range for this position in Seattle, WA is $161,000 - $255,000 per year. The upper third of the salary range is typically reserved for employees who have been in the role for multiple years and have demonstrated strong performance over time. Starting salary will vary by qualifications and prior experience.
• This role includes 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 9 paid days of sick (care) time, 9 paid holidays, 5 paid days off for an organization-wide winter break, and additional time off if required by applicable law. Benefits for this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match, paid parental leave, an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care, and more. Please see here for details.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Eight or more years of experience, including experience conducting UX research across mobile (iOS/Android) and/or web experiences, with a focus on consumer products
• Proven track record of leading UX research that directly shapes product decisions in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, with strong judgment around prioritization, rigor, selection of methods, tradeoffs, and developing product recommendations in early-stage work
• Deep expertise in qualitative research (e.g., interviews, diary studies, concept testing, usability) with the ability to integrate quantitative insights as needed
• Familiarity with product counsel to ensure user research and new product development align with legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements
• Skill in influencing cross‑functional partners and leadership, with exceptional written and oral communication
• Experience collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and engineers throughout the design and development process, including early discovery, concept development, iteration and evaluation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate degree in a relevant field
• Experience operating as the sole or lead UX researcher in an early‑stage environment, including helping establish or scale a research practice within a small or growing team
• Experience working with parents and/or studying children ages 0–6 through user research or related fields such as early childhood education, developmental psychology, neuroscience, etc.

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IonQ is seeking a Staff Researcher, Quantum Computing for Financial Applications and Algorithms to drive the development and strategy of quantum solutions for the financial sector. This senior technical leadership role will be pivotal in defining the roadmap for next-generation quantum finance and security architectures, leveraging IonQ's expertise in hardware and algorithmic innovation. The core focus is on bridging quantum theory, AI/ML, and quantitative finance at scale.

As the ideal candidate, you will own key research initiatives, mentor junior researchers, and directly collaborate with global financial institutions. A critical responsibility is translating complex domain challenges into viable quantum-enabled solutions. This role involves working closely with IonQ’s hardware, software, and research teams to accelerate the realization of quantum advantage in areas like financial modeling, optimization, and cryptography.

Responsibilities:

• Lead IonQ's R&D in quantum algorithms specifically for the finance sector, covering key areas such as portfolio optimization, risk modeling, derivatives pricing, fraud detection, and post-quantum security.
• Define and drive the quantum finance research strategy, establishing long-term technical directions that align with IonQ's overarching product roadmap and partnership objectives.
• Architect and validate quantum algorithmic frameworks suitable for both NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) and future fault-tolerant architectures. This includes integrating expertise in quantum information theory, circuit compilation, and error correction.

• Mentor and guide senior researchers and engineers, cultivating a high-impact, results-driven, and collaborative research environment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Quantum Solutions, Product, and Business teams to successfully translate core research outcomes into deployable, real-world applications for enterprise clients.
• Engage strategically with leading financial institutions and regulatory bodies to facilitate the early adoption and shaping of quantum technologies in secure financial computing.
• Establish and nurture collaborations with top universities, national laboratories, and government organizations to significantly expand IonQ's external research ecosystem.
• Publish thought-leading research at premier conferences and in top-tier journals, establishing IonQ's reputation as a global authority in both quantum finance and quantum-secure architectures.
• Advise executive leadership on critical emerging trends in quantum computing, cryptographic security, and AI-driven financial technologies.
  
  

You’d be a good fit with: 

• Ph.D. in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Finance, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in algorithmic research, computational finance, or quantum information, with at least 3 years in a leadership or principal investigator role.
• Deep technical expertise in quantum computing, error correction, compiler optimization, and high-performance computing.
• Proven experience in quantum AI/ML and its applications in finance.
• Advanced understanding of financial modeling, stochastic calculus, risk analytics, and optimization techniques.
• Demonstrated record of publishing, patenting, or deploying cutting-edge quantum or hybrid classical-quantum solutions.
• Strong track record of leading cross-disciplinary teams and influencing technical direction at the organizational level.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and executive audiences.
  
  

You’d be a great fit with: 

• Knowledge in quantitative research
• Experience with use cases typical of banks and hedge funds

Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices (College Park, MD, Bothell, WA) or fully remote in the US.
Travel: Up to 20%
Job ID:  1220

The approximate base salary range for this position is $162,920 - $213,304. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

As a UX Researcher, you will reveal what our users need from the client’s products by conducting research, working with cross-functional teams, and performing usability studies. These responsibilities include delivering oral and written presentations, evaluating qualitative and quantitative data, and helping the UX team better understand what would make a user’s experience intuitive, accessible, and seamless.   

The work:  

• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to understand research needs  
• Conduct all stages of UX research: identifying, planning, driving, conducting, analyzing, and reporting out actionable insights  
• Recruit participants for research studies  
• Communicate out statuses and updates of research studies to stakeholders  
• Continuously update the UX research repository  
• Work cross-functionally with product owners, designers, content producers and leadership to help identify significant user insights, gaps, conduct UX research, and generate insights to craft user experience strategy for launches, incremental improvements, and innovation 
• Identify opportunities to improve user experience based on research insights  
• Build a UX research repository that delivers efficiency for clients   

Here’s what you need:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in human behavior or related field, or equivalent experience​  
• Minimum 5 years of UX research experience  
• Ability to perform all research related tasks including research, planning, evaluating, and iteration  
• Ability to quickly and effectively share research results  
• Ability to learn new software quickly; experience with Microsoft Office, Dscout, Optimal Workshop, Figma, Confluence, or JIRA is a plus.  
• Knowledge of UX research modalities and methods (e.g., generative and evaluative, participatory design, card sorting, journey mapping, un-moderated).  
• Understanding of integrating qualitative and quantitative research methods to improve research outcomes.    

Bonus points if you have:    

• Master's Degree      
• Minimum of 1 year of experience leading a workstream​  
• Client-facing experience in the federal or public sector    

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is hiring an AI Researcher to join the HAIL team. HAIL (HRT AI Labs) is the team at HRT responsible for developing and maintaining our most powerful models, which are used by our trading teams to drive a significant fraction of our trading. We are building and deploying "foundation models for markets", that ingest and train on vast amounts of market data, to make predictions about future market state. We are seeking experienced AI researchers to join our team to accelerate our efforts.

Researchers have great independence to pursue the research directions they think would be most impactful as part of a small focused team with minimal bureaucracy. They are enabled by state-of-the-art research clusters with very high GPU-to-researcher ratios, and supported by excellent engineering, hardware, and systems teams to realize their vision. Your work will be directly, clearly, highly impactful on the business, and it will be challenging: this is a field with no easy or obvious solutions. You'll be responsible for improving every part of our models: from featurization of data, to architecture design, to training dynamics, to how trading decisions are made.

Qualifications

• Must have two or more years work experience in deep learning research, for any domain: robotics, biology, chemistry, physics, audio, video, etc.
• Experience translating methods between areas of application is highly valued.
• LLM experience is valuable, but not necessary.
• Strong engineering skills valued, especially any of: GPU kernel development, lower-level Pytorch/JAX development, intermediate C++, FPGA/ASIC experience, HPC experience.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

The SPLC is seeking a Senior Staff or Staff Attorney Committed to voting rights!

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Democracy - Voting Rights Litigation Team (DVR) works across the Deep South in collaboration with community partners and organizers to engage and mobilize voters, restore voting rights to returning citizens, pursue electoral policy reforms, and bring litigation to challenge unconstitutional and discriminatory voting practices. Our efforts center on expanding access to the ballot; promoting fair redistricting; defending against racial gerrymandering and vote dilution; improving election administration; and community outreach and engagement. DVR’s current work includes a lawsuit challenging multiple provisions of SB 202, Georgia’s sweeping voter disenfranchisement law which threatens to disenfranchise Georgia voters, specifically voters of color; a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s state legislative maps as racial gerrymanders in violation of the U.S. Constitution; a lawsuit challenging the Mississippi Supreme Court’s 35-year-old districting plan, which denies Black voters a fair opportunity to elect candidate of their choice; and a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s failure to make its absentee ballot system accessible to blind and print-disabled individuals. We also engage regularly in public education, election monitoring, and other legal advocacy work across the Deep South.

Who You Are

Experienced. Demonstrated experience litigating individual and class action civil rights cases in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels.

Advocate. Experience working with community organizations, grassroots campaigns, and impacted communities, particularly in the Deep South, to promote voting rights.

Committed. Demonstrated interest and commitment to voting rights, civic engagement, campaign work, organizing or election law.

Analytical. Ability to synthesize complex issues and communicate them effectively to diverse audiences.  

Researcher. Demonstrated ability to conduct legal research and factual investigations.

Creative. Ability to create vision and take calculated risks in crafting and executing strategies to move litigation forward.

Collaborative. Demonstrated ability to work with other litigation teams external organizations, and stakeholders to execute specific strategies to advance the work and cases of the Democracy- Voting Rights Litigation Team.

Communicative. Exceptional communication skills and ability to communicate persuasively to a variety of audiences through writing and speaking.

Mission, Vision & Culture Alignment. Demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to SPLC's mission, vision and values.

What You'll Do

Litigate cases in state and federal courts, primarily across SPLC’s five focus states. This includes working and co-counseling with private attorneys; conducting extensive research and factual investigations; writing motions, briefs, and other court filings; conducting discovery, court appearances; and oral arguments.

Lead advocacy and litigation, including legal research, factual investigations, drafting memorandum and complaints. 

Identify and develop new cases and new litigation strategies to advance voting rights, including working with community groups, coalitions, and individuals.

Senior Staff Attorneys will mentor and train legal staff and interns as needed.

Participate where appropriate on relevant task forces and coalitions.

Collaborate extensively across departments within SPLC to ensure effective implementation of SPLCs impact area goals;

Represent DVR on relevant task forces and coalitions.

Work closely with SPLC’s Policy Department staff and the SPLC’s Communications and other departments in helping to advance the organization’s policy objectives.

Engage in public speaking and articulate the SPLC’s policies and programs to the public and the media on voting rights issues.

Perform other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties in this job classification.

Uphold our JEDI principles by seeking diverse collaborators and partners that can deliver genuine, authentic and impactful work while ensuring their contributions are directed towards the shared mission, vision and values of the Center and Legal Department’s goals.

Minimum Qualifications 

We are committed to equitable hiring practices; therefore, you must meet the minimum qualifications to be considered for the role.

• Staff Attorney I-II: At least one (1) year of federal court civil litigation or comparable experience post law school;
• Senior Staff Attorney I-IV: At least six (6) years of federal court civil litigation or comparable experience post law school;
• Membership in good standing of at least one state bar in the United States, preferably Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, or Washington, D.C.; and
• J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.

Compensation & Benefits

This is an exempt role, and the minimum starting salary is $78,832.00 annually.  Salary is based on legal experience post law school.  

• Staff Attorney I (1-3 years out of law school): $78,832.00.
• Staff Attorney II (4-5 years out of law school): $89,905.00.
• Senior Staff Attorney I (6 & 7 years out of law school):  $102,637.00. 
• Senior Staff Attorney II (8 & 9 years out of law school):  $117,286.00.
• Senior Staff Attorney III (10 & 11 years out of law school):  $134,129.00. 
• Senior Staff IV (12+ years out of law school): $153,500.00. 

Click here to view the benefits available to SPLC staff.

Where & How You'll Work 

This role the following work designations options:

• Local Remote: Will work remotely but is expected to attend work-related activities that occur at the SPLC offices or in the states in which the SPLC operates.
• Telework: Will work at an SPLC office at least three days per week and may work two days per week from an alternative work location.
• This position will report to a Senior Supervising Attorney, Democracy: Voting Rights.

Other Special Considerations 

This job is performed under general office conditions and is not subject to any strenuous physical demands or dangerous conditions.

This position is represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild.

About the Role

At Headway, we’re building the largest national network of therapists who accept insurance — and making mental healthcare radically more accessible in the process. Our ability to serve patients starts with providers. As Staff Researcher for Provider Growth, you’ll lead research to inform the product vision, strategy, and execution for how we attract, onboard, and activate providers on Headway. 

In this role, you will be a strategic partner, utilizing a mixed-methods approach to uncover critical insights about our Providers. You will conduct research to inform business, product, and marketing strategies, helping us identify and unlock significant growth and differentiated product opportunities. You’ll be responsible for foundational insights and developing a nuanced understanding of diverse provider segments—practice starters vs. veterans, therapists vs. prescribers, solo vs. group practices—each with different needs, painpoints, and behaviors. You’ll share insights and make recommendations about when to personalize and when to unify, helping the team build solutions that flex to serve unique segment needs while maintaining a coherent, unified Headway experience. You'll operate with high autonomy and ownership, presenting regularly to executive leadership including our CEO and making bold recommendations backed by clear, evidence-driven rationale.

Provider growth is one of Headway’s most important levers for scaling access to affordable mental healthcare. Whether it's building a world-class referrals engine, optimizing conversion through onboarding, or laying the groundwork for future market expansion, this role is at the heart of Headway’s growth story — and critical to advancing our mission. This is a pivotal role for both Headway and our mission to make mental healthcare more accessible.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end research projects, from identifying key questions and scoping research plans to conducting the work, synthesizing findings, and presenting actionable recommendations to stakeholders across the business.
• Employ a mixed-methods research skillset, combining quantitative data (surveys, A/B tests, behavioral analytics) with qualitative insights (IDIs, ethnography, concept testing) to develop a comprehensive understanding of how providers source, add, convert, and retain patients.
• Identify and size growth opportunities by analyzing provider behavior, patient sourcing patterns, and competitive dynamics. You will be expected to think critically about what's next for Headway and how we can best build a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to product, design, and marketing teams working on the Provider growth journey, helping them define problem spaces, understand provider segments, and inform the development of new features, products, and campaigns.
• Drive a culture of research and user-centricity across the pod and broader organization by evangelizing findings and promoting a deep understanding of our diverse provider segments and their patients.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior researchers, helping to build and scale our research practice.

Key Skills and Qualifications

• A PhD + 3 years of industry research experience (ideally with experience in a fast-moving tech environment)
• Or a Masters + 6 years
• Or a Bachelors + 8 years
• Expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
• A demonstrated ability to identify and frame business problems and opportunities, with a portfolio of work that shows direct impact on growth metrics.
• Experience in 0-1 product development.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to turn complex data and observations into clear, compelling narratives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams—up to and including executive leadership.
• A self-starter who is innately curious about human behavior and passionate about solving complex problems.

Compensation and Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $212,000 - $265,000, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level.

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

• Benefits offered include:
• Equity compensation
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• HSA / FSA
• 401K
• Work-from-Home Stipend
• Therapy Reimbursement
• 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
• Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
• 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
• Flexible PTO
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and professional development

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Mission

The Industry Lead Solutions Architect will serve as the connective tissue between GTM leadership, field teams, partners, and customers to deepen Databricks' Financial Services positioning by sub-industry. In this role, you will develop opinionated points of view (POVs), and be the primary technical owner of domain-specific messaging and tailored assets, that establish credibility with customer technical and business leadership. You will work with Databricks account and GTM teams to position Databricks as a strategic partner in solving customers' most critical business challenges across Financial Services sub-verticals.

This is a high-visibility individual contributor role that will bridge the gap between product capabilities and industry-specific business outcomes, working closely with account teams, partners, and product engineering to drive growth and technical excellence across your assigned vertical. You will split your time across customer-facing engagements, internal collaboration on content strategy and thought leadership, and partner engagement on joint GTM motions. You will report directly to the FS Tech GM leadership within the Financial Services team at Databricks. 

The Impact You Will Have

• Define and execute the Databricks Industry strategy — work with Industry GTM leaders to lead creation and curation of high-quality, sub-industry-specific assets (POVs, demos, reference architectures, customer references, evaluation templates, implementation plans) that showcase Databrick’s value for high-priority use cases across Financial Services sub-verticals (e.g., Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking, Payments, Professional Services, Alternative Investments, FinTech, Data Providers)
• Create standardized frameworks for asset quality and prioritization — define what "good" looks like for industry  assets, and determine prioritization of asset creation including build-vs-partner decisions
• Drive joint GTM strategy with partners — collaborate with Global System Integrators (GSIs), Regional System Integrators (RSIs), and data partners to co-build assets, align partner solutions to Databricks sub-vertical POVs, and identify the right partners for specific use cases and implementations 
• Embed with strategic Financial Services customers — engage directly with customer technical and business leadership, and advise on how Databricks solves their most pressing domain-specific challenges. Aggregate shared pain points across similar customers to refine messaging and asset creation strategy
• Guide customers through the full use case lifecycle — from establishing credibility and setting vision, through winning evaluations with "golden" POC templates and reference architectures, to realizing value with recommended implementation partners, sample SOWs, and value realization templates
• Scale Industry Adoption: You will act as the field enablement lead, training Solutions Architects (SAs) and partners on how to leverage Databricks assets to accelerate customer success globally.

What We Look For

• Technical Expertise: 15+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role, with deep experience in big data technologies (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Deep domain expertise in Financial Services — strong understanding of sub-industry dynamics across one or more of: Capital Markets, Banking & Payments, Insurance, Asset & Wealth Management, Alternative Investments, FinTech, or Financial Data Providers. Ability to engage credibly with senior business and technology leaders (e.g., Heads of Markets Technology, Chief Data Officers, Heads of Quant Research)
• Proven ability to develop and execute industry-specific GTM strategies — experience building outcome-focused content, POVs, and technical assets that resonate with both business and technical personas
• Cross-Functional Partnerships: Experience working with global system integrators, consulting organizations, financial services technology, or financial services data providers is a positive differentiator
• Leadership & Enablement: Strong communication skills with a track record of mentoring technical teams and enabling partner ecosystems (GSIs and regional boutiques).
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills — ability to craft compelling narratives that connect Databricks platform capabilities to measurable business outcomes for Financial Services customers
• Education: Undergraduate degree or higher in an engineering or mathematics discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, etc.)

About the role

As the Vendor and Contract Manager on the Safeguards team, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Anthropic's safety-critical vendor, partner, and consultant relationships — from identifying and selecting vendors through contract negotiation, onboarding, ongoing performance management, and renewal. The vendors and partners you'll manage span verification, threat intelligence, process outsourcing, capability evaluation, civil society consultation, and research collaboration.

You'll build repeatable processes where they're needed while staying nimble enough to handle novel partnership structures, like research collaborations, civil society consultations, and model red-teaming engagements that don't fit neatly into standard procurement workflows. You'll work closely with legal, procurement, finance, and engineering teams, and you'll be the person who knows where every Safeguards contract stands, what we're spending, and where we should consider a change.

This is a role for someone who's comfortable operating across commercial, legal, and technical contexts in a fast-moving environment — someone who can negotiate contract terms, work with legal teams to redline contracts,  set up model access for a research partner, and handle a vendor performance issue in one day.

*Important context for this role: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Responsibilities:

Vendor Selection & Onboarding

• Understand the broad vendor landscape for Safeguards and drive vendor selection processes with expert input, factoring in tradeoffs between capability, price, and internal resources across categories including verification, threat intelligence, process outsourcing, and capability evaluation
• Conduct vendor due diligence and coordinate security and data governance reviews for vendors handling sensitive model access or content
• Forecast future partnership needs and proactively research vendors and partners that could meet emerging Safeguards requirements

Contract & Budget Management

• Manage contracts across the Safeguards vendor and partner portfolio, working with legal and procurement teams on contract redlining, negotiation, and execution
• Work with legal teams and potential research partners to develop novel agreements for research collaboration, civil society consultation, and model red-teaming
• Handle invoicing, payment, and renewal processes with partners
• Own Safeguards vendor budget tracking and planning in partnership with finance teams, maintaining a clear picture of current spend and forecasting future needs

Ongoing Vendor & Partner Management

• Manage vendor and researcher access to models and products during testing phases and trials
• Oversee and monitor vendor performance and usage, flagging issues and resolving concerns and disputes as they arise
• Report on vendor performance, spend, and contract status to Safeguards leadership

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years in vendor management, procurement, or contract operations, ideally in risk, fraud, compliance, or trust & safety contexts at a technology company
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and negotiating contracts, including comfort with redlining and working alongside legal counsel
• Track record managing vendor budgets, including forecasting, tracking spend, and making tradeoff recommendations
• Understanding of AI safety, account abuse, or platform integrity issues — you know what verification vendors, threat intelligence providers, and content screening tools actually do
• Experience onboarding vendors and standing up new vendor relationships from scratch, not just managing existing ones
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with legal, procurement, finance, and engineering teams
• Comfort with ambiguity and fast-moving environments — you've built or significantly improved vendor management processes, not just inherited them

Nice to have:

• Experience in AI safety or AI-adjacent vendor ecosystems
• Familiarity with procurement tools such as Ironclad or Zip

About the role

As a Safeguards Policy Design Manager, you will be responsible for developing usage policies, clarifying enforcement guidelines, and advising on safety interventions for our products and services. Your core focus will be on age-appropriate design and experiences, including child safety, age assurance, content classification, and adult sexual content. You will help define best practices for developers building on claude for deployment to users across different developmental stages, design age-assurance policies that protect minors from inappropriate content and interactions, and establish clear boundaries for adult content and experiences. In addition, you will advise teams on opportunities for age-appropriate helpfulness, including advising cross-functional teams on beneficial use cases for younger users where appropriate. Safety is core to our mission and you’ll help shape policy creation and development so that our users can safely interact with and build on top of our products in a harmless, helpful and honest way.

*Important context for this role: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as an internal subject matter expert, leveraging deep expertise in child safety, adult content, youth development, and age-appropriate design to:

  • Draft new policies that help govern the responsible use of our models for emerging capabilities and use cases

  • Design evaluation frameworks for testing model performance in areas of expertise

• Conduct regular reviews and testing of existing policies to identify and address gaps and ambiguities

• Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements

• Update our usage policies based on feedback collected from external experts, our enforcement team, and edge cases that you will review

• Work with safeguards product teams to identify and mitigate concerns, and collaborate on designing appropriate interventions for users across different age groups

• Advise on age assurance approaches and content classification frameworks in partnership with Enforcement, Product, Engineering, and Legal teams

• Educate and align internal stakeholders around our policies and our approach to safety in your focus area(s)

• Keep up to date with new and existing AI policy norms, regulatory requirements (e.g., age-appropriate design codes), and industry standards, and use these to inform our decision-making on policy areas

You may be a good fit if you have experience:

• As a researcher, subject matter expert, or trust & safety professional working in one or more of the following focus areas: child safety, youth online safety, age assurance, developmental science, content classification and rating systems, or adult content policy. Note: For this role, an advanced degree in developmental psychology, child development, education, or a related field is preferred.

• Drafting or updating product and / or user policies, with the ability to effectively bridge technical and policy discussions

• Designing or implementing age-appropriate experiences, age assurance mechanisms, or content classification / labeling systems

• Working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for policy evaluations and classifier development

• Aligning product policy decisions between diverse sets of stakeholders, such as Product, Engineering, Public Policy, and Legal teams

• Understanding the challenges that exist in developing and implementing product policies at scale, including in the content moderation space

• Thinking creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and leveraging data and research to inform policy recommendations

• Navigating and prioritizing work efforts amidst ambiguity