Program Manager, Harmful Activity

Location: Bastrop, Texas; New York, New York; or Palo Alto, California

Salary: $110,000–$145,000 USD per year, plus equity and benefits

Company

xAI develops AI systems designed to understand the universe and support humanity's pursuit of knowledge.

What you will do

• Drive priorities, success measures, and system health for harmful activity programs.
• Define requirements and success criteria for detection, classifiers, and automated enforcement.
• Translate legal, policy, and technical constraints into workflows, controls, requirements, and escalation paths.
• Identify framework gaps and improve policies, procedures, operating standards, and documentation.
• Own escalations, quality assurance, and complex residual case patterns while improving enforcement quality.
• Coordinate Product, Engineering, Policy, Legal, and Operations partners, and report performance, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in content integrity, safety operations, abuse operations, or related program roles supporting large-scale enforcement or risk programs.
• Experience managing program priorities, measures, and operational health for content or risk domains.
• Working knowledge of harmful activity domains and the impact of policy, legal, and technical constraints.
• Experience converting policy or legal requirements into practical workflows, controls, and escalation paths.
• Experience with automated or model-driven enforcement systems, including detection, classifiers, or policy automation.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, and cross-functional communication skills.
• Must meet U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements: U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorization.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with harmful activity, integrity, or abuse programs at scale.
• Experience owning escalations, quality assurance, or residual case handling for enforcement programs.
• Exposure to synthetic content, model misuse, or scaled manipulation risks.
• Background in high-scale consumer platforms, marketplaces, or technology products.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, highly motivated organization focused on engineering excellence.
• Flat structure with hands-on contribution and leadership based on initiative and delivery.
• Equity and comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.