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Manager, Strategic Projects (Safety)
$225K–$250K
Seattle, WA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a listed or related field, including people-management experience; 2+ years managing high-performing teams.
About the job
Leads safety and evaluation programs that provide human data for frontier AI model training and evaluation, setting operational and quality strategy while managing teams and customer relationships.
What you'll do
- Lead a portfolio of complex safety and evaluation programs, setting quality standards and building scalable workflows and audit systems.
- Manage, coach, and develop Strategic Projects Leads and model trainers; drive delivery across quality, throughput, and cost.
- Partner with frontier AI labs and internal leaders to shape program scope, address high-stakes issues, and improve policies and evaluation coverage.
What they ask for
- Experience in trust and safety, policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, risk management, operations, consulting, government, or a related field, including people management.
- At least 2 years managing high-performing teams in fast-paced, execution-focused environments.
- Demonstrated success leading multiple complex, high-stakes programs in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong operational judgment, stakeholder-management skills, and a track record of building scalable processes and developing others.
Nice to have
- Experience leading safety-policy, content-review, or evaluation operations across large, distributed workforces.
- Experience designing AI safety evaluations, annotation taxonomies, quality systems, or adversarial-testing programs, or working directly with frontier AI labs.
Pay
$225K – $250K USD base salary
AI focus
Builds human-data programs for frontier AI training and evaluation, including safety evaluations and AI-enabled workflows.
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