Rethink Priorities

Strategy

• Conduct research and analysis on transformative AI, including trajectories, potential upsides, catastrophic and existential risks, and interventions affecting long-run outcomes
• Rapidly learn new technical, governance, and field-building domains as priorities evolve
• Produce decision-relevant landscape analyses, frameworks, memos, and briefings for funders, policymakers, and project founders
• Balance analytical rigor with speed and respond rapidly to changes in the strategic environment
• Reassess workstreams and pivot when more impactful and neglected strategies emerge
• Stay current on AI capabilities, deployment pathways, governance approaches, and emerging risks
• Self-manage priorities and workload in a remote, asynchronous, international environment
• Contribute to internal prioritization and research-quality processes
• Build relationships with researchers, policy specialists, funders, and practitioners
• Elicit and synthesize expert judgments into clear, actionable recommendations
• Potentially represent the team at selected workshops and conferences
• Assess whether promising strategies should become internal projects or new organizations
• Evaluate proposed projects for strategic fit, theory of change, tractability, and potential impact
• Report directly to the AI Strategy Program Lead
• Own strategic research projects end to end as an individual contributor

AI Strategy Analyst – Senior Analyst

AI Research Scientist

• Scoping vague but important questions around AI x Animals — choosing the right depth, angle, and methodology for each, from literature reviews to modelling, data analysis, or expert interviews.
• Conducting independent research on complex questions, addressing uncertainty and competing perspectives explicitly.
• Engaging external stakeholders to understand their needs and shape deliverables to their specifications.
• Producing decision-useful outputs from inception to delivery, in the best-fit format (report, model, dashboard), translated into practical recommendations for decision-makers.
• Managing projects end to end — keeping them on track, reporting progress, and proactively identifying mitigations when barriers arise.
• The balance of these responsibilities, and the autonomy you'll have, depends on the level you're hired at. At the Senior Researcher level, you will own these responsibilities at higher autonomy and help co-create the overall research strategy for the program. You will also build and steward more external relationships with funders, advocates, and field experts.

AI Strategy Analyst – Senior Analyst

Senior Researcher – AI, Animals