Senior Programs & Strategy Manager

FAR.AI•,

3d•$115,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

FAR.AI is seeking a Senior Programs & Strategy Manager to shape the AI safety field through events. This role involves owning the intellectual purpose and program design for a portfolio of over a dozen workshops, conferences, and partner convenings annually. The manager will be responsible for pre-event curation, including shaping agendas, proposing speakers, and determining participant composition. They will also ensure post-event continuity, fostering ongoing impact from convened conversations. This position acts as a content ownership liaison across the program portfolio, bringing coherence and ambition to a growing slate of events. The role requires close collaboration with the Head of Programs, the research team, and external partners to design intellectually rigorous and strategically considered programming. Partnership with other program managers will ensure event visions translate effectively to participant-facing platforms and communications. The role reports to the Head of Programs.

Requirements

Extensive experience designing agendas for technical, academic, or policy-focused events; with a track record of programs that were intellectually ambitious, not just well-organized
Demonstrated ability to translate a strategic goal into a session structure, a speaker list, and a room composition that will actually achieve it
Sharp instincts about who should be in the room and what the conversation needs; developed through years of working closely with researchers, practitioners, or policymakers
Genuine familiarity with the AI safety field; its key questions, key players, and current debates; at a level where you can assess speaker quality, identify agenda gaps, and hold your own with senior researchers
A track record of original written output event framing documents, research summaries, essays, reports, or equivalent; that demonstrates depth of thinking and a clear point of view
Able to translate complex technical or policy conversations into something a funder or decision-maker can act on, without losing the substance
Proven ability to work with high-status or technical stakeholders and manage complex relationships with care
Comfortable proposing ideas that feel ambitious or unconventional and making the intellectual case for them to senior people
You notice things that need to be done and handle them without waiting to be asked.
Comfortable working quickly across a high-volume portfolio of quite different event types and adapting your approach to each.
Willing to take a hands-on operational role when needed, contributing wherever necessary to ensure successful delivery.
Collaborative and low-ego, with the ability to work closely with colleagues across teams while maintaining clear ownership and accountability for outcomes.
Proficiency in project management tools (e.g. Asana, Coda, Airtable)
Experience building or improving CRM processes and communications systems in a team that is scaling.
Strong motivation to contribute to AI safety and the future of the field.

Nice To Haves

Existing relationships in the AI safety research community; researchers and practitioners who know and trust your judgment.
Experience with post-event community building or continuation programming.
Background in a technical field, policy environment, or think tank.
Entrepreneurial experience: starting new initiatives or seeding programmes from scratch.
Experience working in a non-profit or mission-driven organisation.

Responsibilities

Design agendas for FAR.AI’s events portfolio (estimated 12+ events per year), from theory of change through to session structure, speaker selection, and attendee composition.
Propose speakers and attendees with genuine judgment about who will move a conversation forward; not just who is prominent in the field.
Ensure programming reflects the current state of the field and anticipates where it is heading, working with FAR.AI’s in-house research team to pressure-test content decisions.
Take considered bets on emerging topics and innovative formats, and make the intellectual case for them.
Own the content framing for each event developing event theory of change documents, briefing notes, and framing materials that give the programme a clear intellectual spine.
Lead the speaker invitation and engagement process, including drafting outreach, managing speaker preparation, and ensuring speakers are well-positioned to contribute to the event's goals.
Produce written content that extends the reach of FAR.AI’s events: framing documents, research summaries, speaker briefings, and post-event reports.
Act as content ownership liaison across programme tracks, working closely with program leads to ensure coherence and quality across different event types.
Develop participant strategies for each event, identifying the stakeholders, expertise, and perspectives required to achieve the event's objectives and ensure the right mix of attendees in the room.
Lead attendee sourcing and invitation processes, working with team members to build target participant lists, manage initial invitations and other pre- and post-event outreach, and cultivate relationships with priority stakeholders.
Design and steward the conditions for participant groups to keep generating value after the event ends; including virtual continuation formats, working groups, and follow-on convenings.
Track which relationships need tending, which conversations should continue, and which outputs are worth pursuing after each event.
Connect event outputs to FAR.AI’;s broader field-building work in grantmaking, communications, and research.
Build and maintain relationships with senior researchers, lab representatives, policymakers, and field-builders across the AI safety ecosystem.
Leverage an existing network to bring the right people into FAR.AI’s orbit and ensure our events attract participants who will make them better.
Represent FAR.AI credibly in rooms with technical researchers and policy audiences alike.