New Careers in Responsible Tech This Week: Fellowships, Researchers, Privacy, Design & More!
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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!
Coding it Forward 10-week Fellowship
Coding it Forward’s Fellowship is a paid, 10-week summer opportunity for early-career technologists. Fellows work across cybersecurity, data, design, product, and software to build a more equitable and effective government for all.
Dates and Time Commitment
Fellows work 40 hours per week from June 10 - August 16, 2024
Cyber Statecraft Initiative - Spring 2024 Young Global Professionals Program
The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), works at the nexus of geopolitics and cybersecurity to craft strategies to help shape the conduct of statecraft and to better inform and secure users of technology. Our Young Global Professionals are an integral part of the Initiative. With a small group, most of our projects are all-hands-on-deck and we encourage interns to actively engage with events, publications, and strategies. This position will expose the candidate to the writing process for publications and articles, logistical elements of event planning, and creating strategic initiatives within a think tank.
YGPs provide important research and logistical support to the Center, working closely with the Director and Assistant Directors. They are also encouraged to participate in and attend events hosted by other programs at the Atlantic Council. The successful candidate will have a passion for the work, an entrepreneurial ethos, and a collegial spirit while also being an effective communicator. With a work culture of continual learning, an inclination toward deadlines and a demonstrated interest in international affairs and a background in cybersecurity , through classwork and/or experience is preferred.
Investigative Researcher on Technology and Human Rights, Amnesty International
Working as part of the Big Tech Accountability Team, the Investigative Researcher on Technology and human rights will lead research projects aimed at holding major technology corporations to account for their human rights impacts globally. You will play a vital role in the struggle for an internet that protects and promotes human rights.
You will investigate corporate abuses in the technology sector and expose the human rights harms linked to the invasive surveillance-based business model, which underpins companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. You will work closely with campaigners, communities, and partner organisations to undertake cutting-edge research aimed at exposing and challenging human rights abuses.
Director of CASM, Demos
Ten years ago Demos launched CASM (the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media), one of the first think tanks to identify the centrality of digital technology to the future of policy-making. Since then it has worked to investigate, articulate and advocate for an internet and technologies that protect democratic values and human rights. It has been home to some of the country’s leading digital thinkers including Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller and Ellen Judson.
Today we are seeking a new leader to shape the future of CASM at Demos around the emerging technologies of tomorrow. You will be an exceptional thinker, with deep knowledge of digital technologies and a passion for the social, economic and democratic contexts that they are shaping. We are looking for a visionary to shape CASM for its next iteration and embed it in the wider Demos’ strategy.
Interactive UI Developer to Protect Voting Rights in the 2024 General Election, Centre for New Data
The Centre for New Data is seeking to create an interactive dashboard that will visualize data about polling location placement in historical and recent elections. Our users (voting rights organizations) would like to extract insights about the adequacy and equity of polling locations, as a means to strengthen their efforts at county-level advocacy to expand and equalize in-person voting access. Data to be visualized includes county-level, precinct-level, and aggregated voter-level data, spanning about 4 to 8 states. The UI Developer will report to the Executive Director, work with our Product Management Fellow, and alongside our backend data engineer.
Director, Privacy & Operations, Epic Games
As the Director, Privacy Operations, you will be responsible for conducting privacy risk analysis to identify privacy risks for products, services, and features. You’ll maintain policies, procedures, and safeguards related to data governance. You’ll also be responsible for maintaining an inventory of external policies and notices and maintaining enterprise-wide data mapping, classification, glossary, and catalog. You’ll develop standards for ensuring data quality, including data accuracy, completeness, and consistency. And, you’ll manage the process for ensuring the accuracy and consistent review of Epic Games’ enterprise-wide service inventory.
U.S. Google Public Policy Fellowship
The U.S. Google Public Policy Fellowship is offered year round to students passionate about the internet and technology policy. Accepted fellows will spend a semester working at a public interest organization at the forefront of debates on tech policy issues.
Fellows will be assigned a lead mentor at a host organization and will have the opportunity to work with several senior staff members over the course of the semester contributing to the public dialogue on tech policy issues, and exploring future academic and professional interests. Fellows will be expected to make substantive contributions to the work of their organization, including conducting policy research and analysis, drafting reports and white papers, attending government and industry meetings and conferences, and participating in other advocacy activities.
Assessment & Accountability Manager, Global Network Initiative
As Assessment & Accountability Manager, you will be responsible for evolving the design and implementation of the GNI framework and other accountability-related functions, as well as engaging in related, external initiatives. You will be part of GNI’s senior leadership and work closely with the Executive and Managing Directors, as well as leading academic, civil society, company, investor, and audit practitioners to ensure that the GNI framework efficiently integrates with and builds on international standards and regulatory requirements and adapts to emerging technological developments. You will work with GNI staff and members to understand and help shape evolving normative and regulatory expectations, develop guidance and tools, conduct training, and support multistakeholder engagement around responsible tech company conduct.
Researcher/Designer, Civilia
At Civilla, you’ll center equity while leveraging your research and design experience to support our project work. In this role, you will:
Conduct qualitative research, develop insights, and design in complex service environments to improve peoples’ experience using public services.
Design simple and usable solutions that demonstrate a deep understanding of people’s needs. This includes solutions ranging from printed materials and digital services to policies and processes.
Lead an approach to research and design rooted in equity, building meaningful relationships with the people who are most impacted by your work and checking personal biases and assumptions.
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Teen Safety Expert (EU), Discord
Discord is looking for an experienced and empathetic Teen Safety Expert, EU who will help drive our mission of keeping Discord users safe by leading their teen safety efforts through policy development, product counseling, and external partnership engagement.
Identify and research new and emerging teen safety issues and mitigation strategies. Develop content policies to address teen safety issues on the platform.
Partner with Product to build more teen and parent-centered safety controls and response mechanisms.
Represent Discord to and build relationships with our external teen safety partners in civil society, government, the industry, and media.
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