New Careers in Responsible Tech This Week: AI, Fellowships, Policy, Trust & Safety, and Product Management

All Tech Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Job Board curates roles focused on reducing the harms of technology, diversifying the tech pipeline, and ensuring that technology is aligned with the public interest. It is the premiere resource in the field for people exploring a career change, new role, or interested in the growing responsible tech ecosystem.

Beginning this week, we’re highlighting 10 new roles added to the Responsible Tech Job Board! To view hundreds of openings in the field click the button below!

Principal Product Manager, Kiva

Join a team of product managers, designers, and technologists who are on a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. Building on the success of Kiva’s crowdlending product, we envision a future in which people come together to invest in others who are improving their communities around the world: women, refugees, small-holder farmers, climate-impacted people, and underserved communities in the US. 

Fields: Products, Leadership, Financial Fairness

Senior Manager, Trust and Safety Response Operations, Snapchat

The Trust & Safety team’s mission is to help keep Snapchatters safe and ensure our community trusts Snapchat. We’re looking for a Senior Manager, US Response Operations to join the Trust & Safety team at Snap Inc! In this role, you will lead the Trust & Safety US response operations team, set strategy, objectives, and support team members in responding to Snapchatter safety reports, and assisting with initiatives to reduce abuse on Snapchat 

Fields: Trust & Safety, Leadership, Operations, Healthy Digital Spaces

Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation

Director of Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Director of SRE to lead its staff. Wikimedia Foundation’s Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for ensuring our global top-10 web site and other public facing services are healthy, and developing its infrastructure, platform and services further in the enablement of Wikimedia Foundation’s mission. The SRE team comprises over 45 creative and talented staff members who are globally distributed, organized into seven teams each with their own scope and focus area.

Fields: Software Engineering, Open Source

#ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship, New America

The #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship is a program providing mid-career cybersecurity professionals from diverse backgrounds with an opportunity to conduct policy research and analysis, access professional development, examine critical cyber security issues, and explore questions of diversity and the human side of cybersecurity.

During the course of their year-long fellowship with New America, #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellows will conduct an independent research project. Their first nine months will be dedicated to professional development and planning, researching, and finalizing their work product. The final three months are dedicated to promoting their research work with the help of New America and program staff. During our inaugural year, our Fellows conducted independent projects on a variety of consequential cybersecurity topics, spanning from mapping the global impact of spyware on activists, to the cybersecurity risks of AR/VR technologies.

Fields: Research, Cybersecurity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Tech Policy/Law

Senior Data Scientist, Consumer Reports

CR is currently seeking a Senior Data Scientist for our Innovation Lab team to help design and prototype solutions to many urgent problems consumers face today. 

You will serve as the embedded senior data scientist on a fast-moving team, responsible for delivering proofs of concept and demonstrating new, innovative ways CR can show up for consumers. In this role, you will regularly ship work that has a real impact on the marketplace and people’s lives.

Fields: Data Science, Machine Learning, Responsible AI

Project Manager - Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

In 2024 HD will be facilitating a series of structured dialogues with interested states on codifying risk mitigation measures in one or more agreements. This work is housed in HD’s Digital Conflict directorate. There will also be the opportunity to scope and develop work on other emerging issues in the nexus between technology and conflict (e.g. in the outer space domain). You will Lead the development of HD’s artificial intelligence and emerging technologies project and oversee its overall performance.

Fields: Communications, Strategy

Digital Justice Fellow, Legal Defense Fund

The Digital Justice Fellow will work with LDF litigators, policy advocates, and organizers and assist in the development of litigation, legislation, and advocacy tools to critically examine and address the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data in the creation, maintenance, and furthering of racial inequality.

While TMI and LDF are interested in the impact of emerging technologies in Black communities across our core issue areas, our digital rights work has primarily addressed three priorities: 1) police surveillance technologies; 2) algorithmic discrimination as a barrier to economic justice; and 3) the impact of AI on Black political power. The Digital Justice Fellow will advance TMI and LDF’s racial justice and emerging technologies agenda by producing reports, briefs, and other written materials and working collaboratively within LDF to educate the public and to support our visionary advocacy work. Experience with racial bias analysis and with technology required. 

Felds: Tech Policy/Law, Digital Rights, Data Justice, Responsible AI

William J. Brennan Fellowship, Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, ACLU

The Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project is dedicated to protecting and expanding the First Amendment freedoms of expression, association, and inquiry; expanding the right to privacy and increasing the control that individuals have over their personal information; and ensuring that civil liberties are enhanced rather than compromised by new advances in science and technology. The project is currently litigating cases and conducting other advocacy efforts on a variety of issues, including political protest, freedom of expression online, privacy of electronic information, journalists’ rights, scientific and academic freedom, openness in the courts, privacy rights at the border, and the impact of big data and algorithmic decision-making. 

The Brennan Fellowship, established by a special gift from author Tom Peters and poet Catherine Abbe and named after retired Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, was created to give people just starting their careers an opportunity to receive training and experience in First Amendment advocacy, and to help the ACLU advance its First Amendment goals. The Brennan Fellow will function as an integral part of the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and will work on our extensive docket of First and Fourth Amendment cases. This is a two-year fellowship position, and starts in Fall 2024. 

Fields: Tech Policy/Law, Data Rights, Data Privacy, Digital Governance

AI Curriculum Writer (9-12) - Independent Contractor, The AI Education Project

aiEDU is launching a project to develop substitute lesson plans to supplement our existing and future curriculum materials. Our aim is to design accessible and differentiated learning content that effectively addresses the diverse needs of students and educators. This role will be responsible for creating substitute lesson plans for aiEDU based on existing and upcoming Project Dashboard learning activities (grades 9-12).

Fields: Responsible AI

Public Policy Manager, Policy Planning, Meta

Meta is seeking a Policy Manager to support the execution of global policy priorities. In this role, you’ll be a member of the Policy Planning team, a globally focused central function that supports the work of policy teams through strategic planning, coordination, and policy advising. You will become part of a team that is working directly with company leadership to address some of the most interesting public policy challenges of our times, including AI, safety and security, the impact of regulation on innovation, and the intersection between technology and human rights.

Fields: Tech Policy/Law, Communications, Healthy Digital Spaces