Product Manager, Safeguards (AI)

TL;DR

Product Manager, Safeguards (AI): Owning the ideation, design, development, and deployment of Safeguards systems and relevant product UX for advancing frontier AI models safely. Focus on developing detections, evaluations, and interventions to measure and mitigate deployment and user risks across various cloud platforms.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, CA. Expectation to be in the office at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available.

Salary: $305,000–$385,000 USD (Annual Salary)

Company

hirify.global is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for the benefit of society.

What you will do

• Determine how to build safety by design upstream and leverage downstream defenses for hirify.global’s frontier models and AI products across various platforms.
• Write safety evaluations and communicate externally about safety.
• Drive impact through ruthless prioritization by clearly defining problems, solution options, and technical tradeoffs.
• Align and collaborate with policy, enforcement, research, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Understand the AI landscape and ecosystem to plan for mitigation of deployment risks of increasingly powerful models.
• Lead the development of metrics to understand the area, performance, and blindspots to inform future project planning.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management with a focus on fast problem understanding, building roadmaps, and getting into details on data, detection, interventions, infrastructure, or evaluations.
• Ability to make technical tradeoff decisions, ideally with experience working across policy experts, AI/ML research engineers, and software engineering teams to design and build state-of-the-art safety systems.
• Strong user understanding of how products are used, Safeguards concerns, and how to provide the best solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to build product and engineering strategy across multiple cross-functional teams for a rapidly changing space.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building metrics to evaluate risks, system performance, and user impact.
• Ability to navigate and prioritize amidst rapidly changing product specifications and to flex into different domains to bring clarity and execute.
• Evidence of exercising judgment and decision-making in ambiguous situations.
• Experience planning, building, launching, and measuring new products/systems in a zero-to-one environment.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences in written and verbal communication.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as a single cohesive team on large-scale research efforts, valuing impact and advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI.
• Extremely collaborative group with frequent research discussions.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.