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- Head of AI Safety leading applied AI system evaluations and advisory work at Moonshot. Managing teams, partnerships, and portfolio growth across violence prevention and online harms.
Responsibilities
- Lead and quality-assure Moonshot's applied AI safety work across violence, extremism, CSEA, abuse and grooming, mental health and crisis, and child and teen risk categories.
- Advise frontier AI companies on improving model, product, policy, and intervention safety.
- Translate subject-matter expertise into actionable guidance for model safety, policy, product, research, and engineering teams.
- Set methodological approaches and develop structured, testable evaluation frameworks.
- Lead and participate directly in red teaming and adversarial evaluation of AI systems.
- Identify safety failures and develop recommendations for model behaviour and user protections.
- Maintain rigorous documentation and ensure compliance with legal, data protection, contractual, and ethical obligations.
- Manage operational, reputational, delivery, and partnership risks.
- Serve as Moonshot's primary applied AI safety counterpart for partners, governments, regulators, and the wider ecosystem.
- Build relationships with AI company teams, governments, foundations, academics, researchers, civil society organizations, and practitioners.
- Represent Moonshot externally in meetings, briefings, workshops, and sector engagement.
- Lead, coach, and manage the AI safety team.
- Support workforce planning, performance management, professional development, and team wellbeing.
- Coordinate with operations, finance, research, and technical teams.
- Develop the AI safety portfolio through strategic opportunities, partnerships, and funding.
- Lead proposal development, scoping, and renewals.
- Develop repeatable methodologies, service offerings, and partnerships.
- Support communications, publications, briefings, and thought leadership.
- Oversee project planning, staffing, budgeting, forecasting, and delivery timelines.
Requirements
- Experience in trust & safety, online harms, violence prevention, safeguarding, or public health, with ability to adapt knowledge to AI systems.
- Curiosity about AI and ability to build technical fluency quickly.
- Experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for violent extremism, CSEA, self-harm and crisis, or targeted violence.
- Experience managing projects, teams, budgets, partners, and clients, with strong people management skills.
- Excellent written communication for government, foundation, or enterprise audiences.
- Resilience working with highly sensitive or graphic content, with awareness of wellbeing practices.
- Strong judgment navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and sensitive stakeholder environments.
- Willingness to travel and work outside regular hours when needed.
- Trustworthiness, discretion, diplomacy, and willingness to undertake security clearance procedures.
- Experience supporting business development, grant funding, or procurement.
- Commitment to Moonshot's mission.
- Eligibility to work in Canada.
- Required to pass a standard background check and relevant security clearance procedures per client needs.
- Desirable: direct experience in model safety, red teaming, or adversarial evaluation of LLMs or other AI systems.
- Desirable: understanding of LLM architecture, safety tooling, or trust & safety policy.
- Desirable: child safety evaluation, teen-safety product work, or grooming and CSEA detection experience.
- Desirable: government or regulatory engagement experience.
- Desirable: intervention or diversion programme design experience.
- Desirable: academic or applied background in radicalization studies, forensic psychology, or violence risk assessment.
- Desirable: familiarity with taxonomy or classifier development and testing data.
Benefits
- 25 days paid vacation leave, plus Statutory Holiday
- Flexible public holiday policy with the option to work statutory holidays in exchange for a day off at another time.
- Group healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children (80% Co-Insurance).
- HSA is restricted to mental health practitioners only
- Dental & Vision Insurance (80% Co-Insurance).
- Life & LTD Disability Insurance.
- 24/7 access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Program.
- Generous maternity and paternity leave: 26 weeks paid maternity leave, 8 weeks paid paternity leave.
- All permanent employees are granted share options upon employment.
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