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Rethink Priorities

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Rethink Priorities is a think-and-do tank that conducts rigorous, data-driven research and implements projects to improve global well-being now and in the future. It evaluates and tests high-leverage interventions across areas such as animal welfare, global health and development, climate, and neglected issues, and offers consulting and special-project services to donors, nonprofits, policymakers, and researchers. The organization operates as nonprofit entities in the US and UK and focuses on empirical analysis, surveys, and actionable recommendations to maximize philanthropic and policy impact.

📋 Description

• Conduct research and analysis on transformative AI, including trajectories, potential upsides, catastrophic and existential risks, and interventions affecting long-run outcomes • Rapidly learn new technical, governance, and field-building domains as priorities evolve • Produce decision-relevant landscape analyses, frameworks, memos, and briefings for funders, policymakers, and project founders • Balance analytical rigor with speed and respond rapidly to changes in the strategic environment • Reassess workstreams and pivot when more impactful and neglected strategies emerge • Stay current on AI capabilities, deployment pathways, governance approaches, and emerging risks • Self-manage priorities and workload in a remote, asynchronous, international environment • Contribute to internal prioritization and research-quality processes • Build relationships with researchers, policy specialists, funders, and practitioners • Elicit and synthesize expert judgments into clear, actionable recommendations • Potentially represent the team at selected workshops and conferences • Assess whether promising strategies should become internal projects or new organizations • Evaluate proposed projects for strategic fit, theory of change, tractability, and potential impact • Report directly to the AI Strategy Program Lead • Own strategic research projects end to end as an individual contributor

🎯 Requirements

• Generalist range and track record of quickly getting up to speed in unfamiliar knowledge domains • Strong research, writing, and synthesis skills • Ability to communicate clear strategic insights in writing • Ability to plan work, unblock oneself, and deliver high-quality outputs with light-touch oversight • Excellent project management experience, including scoping, research processes, timelines, and deliverables • Sound judgment under deep uncertainty and willingness to pivot strategies • Ability to rapidly build credibility and rapport with external experts and elicit controversial or unpopular views • Experience or knowledge relating to transformative AI, including highly capable AI’s potential upsides and/or catastrophic and existential risks • Strong alignment with Rethink Priorities’ mission and efforts to reduce existential risk and secure beneficial outcomes from advanced AI • Professional-level English proficiency • Ability to attend meetings during working hours between UTC−8 and UTC+1 • Ability to attend approximately three workshops/conferences annually, sometimes involving international flights, plus a five-workday annual retreat requiring air or train travel • Preferred: decision-relevant research experience for funders, policymakers, think tanks, or senior leadership • Preferred: background in public policy, economics, philosophy, cognitive science, computer science, or computer engineering • Preferred: familiarity and ideally relationships within the transformative-AI ecosystem • Preferred: forecasting or structured reasoning-under-uncertainty experience • Preferred: experience collaborating with research and operational teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual salary of $110,000–$150,000 USD pre-tax for full-time work, prorated for part-time work • Comprehensive global benefits program, including statutory and country-specific supplemental benefits • Generous paid time off and unpaid leave • Unlimited vacation with a minimum number of required statutory days off • Three weeks of organization-wide mid- and end-year breaks • Unlimited personal and sick paid and unpaid leave within reason • 4–9 months of combined paid and unpaid parental leave • Other paid and unpaid leave, including bereavement leave • Remote-first environment with flexible work hours and schedule • Technology stipend of $2,000 USD equivalent every 3 years for work and office equipment • AI tools budget of $40 USD equivalent monthly • Professional Development Budget of $4,000 USD per year • Workshops and training sessions • 10% of work time dedicated to professional and personal development • Paid work trips, including an annual all-staff Mega Team Retreat and relevant conferences • Virtual co-working spaces, including a private Rethink Priorities Focusmate group • RP Peer Support Program for New Employees • Opportunities for career growth and professional development • Reasonable accommodations and benefits including flexible work schedules and locations, mental health coverage where available, technology budgets, professional development time, assistive technology, and job coaching • Other benefits at the discretion of RP Leadership