The opportunity
Frontier research runs on more than research alone. Behind every model launch, review, and cross-team program is a web of decisions, priorities, and follow-through that keeps hundreds of researchers moving in the same direction.
What you'll do
Own leadership's time. Shape the week around the leaders' specific, most: timely priorities, set agendas so meetings are spent on decisions that move the org forward, and cut what isn't critical so leaders stay focused on the areas that are highest-leverage for them.
Triage what reaches leadership. Resolve what you can, route what belongs: elsewhere, and thoughtfully escalate the rest.
Enable wise decision-making and follow through. Give leaders what they need: to decide quickly, communicate those decisions to collaborators, and track commitments through to completion.
See problems coming. Surface resourcing gaps, technical bottlenecks, and: stalled action-items before they become blockers.
Scale leadership voice. Meetings are ephemeral; docs are forever. Draft: materials for org-wide announcements, programming, and planning sessions. Protect leadership’s time for creating durable comms that set direction in turbulent times.
Make the org run better. Find the friction that keeps recurring and find the: people who can fix the process behind it.
What they're looking for
- Experience supporting a senior leader directly in a chief of staff or related function
- Time in a research institution, lab, or other research-heavy organization
- Track record of anticipating what colleagues and leaders will need and acting on it before being asked
- Comfort in an environment where the right answer changes hour to hour
- Experience moving routine operational work to AI agents, or the ability to script and build small tools
- Familiarity with AI safety or other existential risks.
