Head of Kairos Labs

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🔥 16 hours ago

🏄 California, Massachusetts – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $140k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Kairos

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

🤝 Non-profit

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📚 Education

Non-profit • Artificial Intelligence • Education

Kairos is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that accelerates talent into AI safety and policy fields by running scalable programs that mentor, fund, and train researchers and organizers. Its core offerings include SPAR, a large part-time remote research fellowship focused on risks from advanced AI with work accepted at conferences like ICML and NeurIPS; Pathfinder, which funds and mentors university AI safety and policy student groups; Generator, an in-person residency to build operational capacity for the AI safety ecosystem; and intensive residential workshops on AI safety and biosecurity. Kairos emphasizes rapid, scalable interventions to grow researchers, policymakers, and skilled operators, and reports impact metrics such as 1,200+ people supported, 70+ publications, and 160+ organizers supported. The organization is funded by Coefficient Giving and operates internationally with remote and in-person programs.

📋 Description

• Design Kairos Labs, an incubator for new AI safety projects and organizations • Decide the types of organizations supported, cohort versus rolling structure, program duration, support model, and independence criteria • Build the application and selection process • Recruit the first projects • Establish program operations • Advise Kairos Labs founders on strategy, fundraising, and hiring • Ensure incubated projects’ operational needs are met • Set Kairos Labs’ strategic direction and growth plans • Determine ecosystem needs and how the program relates to Kairos’ other programs • Contribute to organization-wide strategy, new programs, and cross-cutting work

🎯 Requirements

• Experience founding an organization or running a comparable incubator, accelerator, fellowship, or fiscal-sponsorship program • Firsthand understanding of early-stage organizational needs • Clear views on which AI safety organizations are worth starting and which ecosystem gaps matter most • Strong judgment about projects and people • Ability to build a vision from scratch and execute autonomously • Deep commitment to making advanced AI go well • Comfort handling legal, financial, and compliance work with expert support • Ability or preference to attend meetings in the ET time zone • Ability to travel 3–6 times a year, predominantly in the US • Visa sponsorship may be possible depending on circumstances, but is not guaranteed

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Highly competitive health insurance • Dental and vision coverage • Generous vacation policy • Professional development budget • Access to office space in San Francisco, Berkeley, London, or Boston • Food, lunches, and office expenses covered when working from an AI safety office in specified hubs • Optional coworking elsewhere • Team retreats three times a year • Work-related travel and expenses covered • Paid take-home assignment • Paid three-day work trial • Potential additional compensation for exceptional candidates • $5,000 referral bonus if a referral is hired and completes 6 months