Director, AI Strategy – Mental Health

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $120k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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The Jed Foundation (JED)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🤝 Non-profit

Healthcare • Consulting • Non-profit

The Jed Foundation (JED) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting emotional health and preventing suicide among teens and young adults. It provides resources and programs to equip young people with the skills and support they need to thrive and address mental health challenges. JED partners with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health, substance misuse, and suicide prevention programs. The foundation also focuses on community mobilization to raise awareness and encourage action for young adult mental health. Through educational resources, training programs, and collaborations, JED aims to create a supportive environment for youth mental well-being.

📋 Description

• Maintain a sophisticated understanding of developments in AI technology and assess implications for mental health and suicide prevention • Advance JED’s work in AI safety, evaluation, benchmarking, standards, and related field-building efforts • Work with technology, research, mental-health, suicide-prevention, and public-interest partners to bring relevant priorities into evaluation frameworks, scenarios, constructs, measures, and other approaches • Apply knowledge of model and system behavior, safety evaluations, red-teaming, safeguards and mitigations, failure modes, and evaluation methodology to identify strengths and gaps • Advance approaches addressing acute safety failures as well as relationships and dependency, connection and belonging, agency, coping, help-seeking, protective factors, developmental differences, and beneficial uses of AI • Manage technology-company advising work, assessing AI products, features, and safety approaches and developing actionable recommendations • Develop JED positions, frameworks, principles, recommendations, and guidance on AI and emerging technology • Identify emerging issues, evidence gaps, and opportunities for JED engagement • Build and manage relationships across technology companies, AI safety and evaluation organizations, academic and independent research institutions, public-interest organizations, philanthropy, and mental-health and suicide-prevention organizations • Collaborate with JED’s Knowledge & Advising, Policy, Programs, MarComms, and other teams • Represent JED in collaborations, working groups, expert processes, convenings, and external forums • Contribute to new initiatives, partnerships, proposals, and funding opportunities • Report to the SVP, Youth Strategies & Chief Engagement Officer

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 7+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial work in AI, AI safety, responsible AI, AI evaluation, human-AI interaction, or a closely related field • Exceptional candidates with a different career trajectory but equivalent depth of experience will be considered • Strong working knowledge of contemporary AI technologies, including generative AI, large language models, multimodal systems, conversational AI, agents, memory/personalization, and emerging human-AI interfaces • Demonstrated knowledge of AI safety and evaluation, including model and system behavior, evaluation and benchmarking, red-teaming, failure modes, safeguards and mitigations, and the strengths and limitations of current approaches • Experience applying technology, safety, evaluation, research, or related expertise in a high-stakes human domain such as mental health, suicide prevention, healthcare, public health, child and adolescent wellbeing or safety, child protection, online safety, violence prevention, or another closely related area • Working knowledge of mental health, suicide prevention, behavioral health, public health, or an adjacent field sufficient to engage meaningfully with domain experts and understand the implications of AI systems for people experiencing distress or vulnerability • Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly and independently with AI researchers, engineers, evaluation and safety teams, and product teams; this role does not require the candidate to be an ML engineer • Demonstrated ability to connect technical developments to implications for human behavior, safety, wellbeing, products, institutions, or society • Excellent analytical, synthesis, writing, and communication skills, with experience developing frameworks, strategy, recommendations, guidance, or thought leadership • Strong judgment and comfort working across technical and nontechnical disciplines • Experience advancing complex work involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, with strong relationship-building and collaboration skills • Direct experience in mental health, suicide prevention, behavioral health, digital mental health, or a closely related field is strongly preferred • Experience focused on children, adolescents, families, development, or populations experiencing heightened vulnerability is strongly preferred • Experience working directly with technology-company product, safety, evaluation, or research teams is strongly preferred • Experience developing or applying benchmarks, evaluations, safety frameworks, standards, or red-teaming approaches is strongly preferred • Experience translating technical research for public-interest, product, policy, practitioner, or other nontechnical audiences is strongly preferred • An advanced degree may be valuable but is not required