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Program Scientist, Agents
Schmidt-entities
New York City, USA
Full-time
Senior · 4+ years experience
Onsite
USD 250000-375000 yearly / year
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- Strategy & scientific direction : Oversee the program’s strategy, setting ambitious, concrete, and measurable goals for the program, being responsible for delivery against those goals, and helping to measure progress against the strategy.
- Budget : Manage the program’s budget, monitoring expenditures and forecasting future needs to ensure efficient use of resources.
- Team and Advisors : Manage the program’s team, ensuring the program has sufficient internal and external staff to execute its strategy, and securing additional resources when necessary. Manage and convene external advisors as needed to ensure program benefits from top scientific thinking at the intersection of AI and humanities.
- Sourcing & Selection : Oversee the program’s efforts to identify, source, and fund the best people and projects, in line with the program’s strategy.
- Grantee management & support : In collaboration with the Grantee Affairs Manager, Coordinate and maintain communication with awardee PIs and research teams to track progress and challenges faced over the duration of the award. Periodically assess if additional or different kinds of support could be necessary or beneficial.
- Assessment: Participate in the internal assessment process, including the analysis of incoming scientific proposals and reports in context of the current landscape. Assess program’s awards and other activities, utilizing metrics and analysis to measure success and inform strategic decision-making.
- Internal & External Communication : Engage organizational leadership to maintain clear awareness of communication about the program, ensuring leadership feedback is incorporated into the program. In coordination with the Communications Team, Manage external communication about the program, including website, social media, and interviews.
- Partnerships : Start, manage, and grow relationships with universities, scientific research institutions, science collaboratives/funds, incubators, science-focused government organizations, and philanthropic organizations.
- Successful candidates are people who will want to stay at Schmidt Sciences for a long time and develop multiple different programs in AI, starting with a focus on AI agents.
- Develop ideas for promising AI agents and other AI programs, where philanthropy can have impact at the intersection of AI, science, and technology.
- Test initial ideas with internal and external experts to refine them.
- Develop and pitch program concepts to leadership.
- For programs that get approval for initial explorations (“seedlings”), develop the success criteria and execute on the initial exploration
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