You will either lead the strategy, growth, and delivery of the Academic Programs team or serve as a founding operational member. You will develop and improve academic programs, support researcher recruitment and selection, evaluate program impact, coordinate events and logistics, and build relationships with academic stakeholders. Director-level work includes setting strategy, expanding programs, and managing team performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Academic Programs team’s strategic direction and objectives
- Review existing programs and decide whether to expand, adapt, or retire them
- Identify, scope, and execute new projects and scaling opportunities
- Build relationships with academic institutions, researchers, experts, and aligned organizations
- Grow, develop, and performance-manage the Academic Programs team
- Design and deliver academic programs from end to end
- Manage processes for identifying, attracting, and selecting researchers
- Evaluate program effectiveness through metrics, data collection, and impact analysis
- Organize in-person and online event logistics
- Ensure an excellent participant experience across operations, networking, career development, and wellbeing
- Design and implement communications, events management, logistics, and analytics
Requirements
- Familiarity with Legal Frontiers workstreams and LawAI teams
- Ability to communicate complex law and AI concepts accessibly to academic audiences
- Interest in identifying and supporting research on beneficial and safe AI
- Ability to work independently and adapt to shifting priorities
- Director candidates: executive or director-level experience with team and organizational performance
- Director candidates: ability to engage thoughtfully with legal and policy scholarship
- Director candidates: ability to build relationships with academics, lawyers, law students, and policy professionals
- Manager candidates: project management, talent management, or events management experience
- Manager candidates: familiarity with legal talent profiles across the US, UK, other common-law jurisdictions, and the EU
- Availability for significant overlap with working hours across the US and Europe
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- 5 weeks of recommended PTO per year plus public holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave, with additional unpaid leave available
- Employer pension or matching 401(k) contribution up to 4% of salary
- Health insurance for employees in countries without nationalized healthcare
- $5,000 annual productivity and professional development reimbursement
- $5,000 annual mental health support reimbursement
- $2,500 annual equipment and office supplies reimbursement
- Annual team retreat
- Honorarium for the work trial
You will either lead the strategy, growth, and delivery of the Academic Programs team or serve as a founding operational member. You will develop and improve academic programs, sup...
Remote
Full_time
Permanent
#Cambridge, UK / Washington, DC / Remote