Director of Academic Programs / Academic Programs Manager

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