Head of Kairos Labs

The role

The Head of Kairos Labs will design, launch, and lead an incubator for new AI safety organizations. This person will build the program from the ground up, support incubated founders, and own the strategic direction of the incubator.

What you will do

• Design the incubator program
• Build the application and selection process
• Recruit the first projects
• Set up program operations
• Act as main advisor to Kairos Labs founders
• Help founders with strategy, fundraising, and hiring
• Decide how the program grows
• Contribute to org-wide strategy and new programs

Required qualifications

• Experience building organizations, such as founding something or running an incubator, accelerator, fellowship, or fiscal-sponsorship program
• AI safety context and views on the ecosystem
• Strong judgment about projects and people
• High agency
• Mission-aligned
• Operationally fluent in legal, financial, and compliance work

Nice to have

• Ability to attend meetings in the ET time zone

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Highly competitive health insurance
• Dental and vision coverage
• Generous vacation policy
• Professional development budget
• All-team retreats three times a year
• Work-related travel and expenses covered
• Food, lunches, and office expenses covered if working from an AI safety office in specific cities
• Home office expenses covered if working from home

Before you apply

• Reviewing applications on a rolling basis
• AI tools help review applications
• Application process includes a paid take-home assignment and a paid 3-day work trial
• Kairos is happy to sponsor visas to the US (typically H-1Bs or O-1As) and likely UK visas

About the company

Kairos is a nonprofit accelerating talent into AI safety and policy. They manage a portfolio of impactful projects including SPAR, Generator Residency, Global Challenges Project, and Pathfinder Fellowship.