Technical Product Manager (Applied Research)

LawZero is a non-profit organization founded by Yoshua Bengio focused on building safe-by-design AI systems. They are seeking a hands-on Technical Product Manager to work closely with researchers and engineers to apply early versions of their flagship product, the Scientist AI, to real-world applications.

Responsibilities:

• Deeply understand the risks posed by frontier models (e.g., LLMs), such as misalignment, alignment faking, sycophancy; as well as how malicious actors may use these systems to do harm to individuals and society at large
• Deeply understand the Scientist AI, how it is different from large language models (LLMs), and how it aims to solve the problems above
• Working together with the research and leadership teams, identify the set of applied use-cases and build an exploratory strategy and roadmap around them
• Engage with external stakeholders (including other research organizations and industry partners) to understand their problems and use-cases for the Scientist AI (what problem they need to solve, how the Scientist AI might do it, what the requirements are, how success is measured, what datasets are available etc.)
• Day-to-day carry out project management for the team to effectively iterate and deliver on the applied use-cases (establishing priorities, user stories, specs, deliverables, success metrics etc.)
• Where relevant, coach researchers, engineers and the rest of LawZero to ask questions and think about what is important to customers and users, and how they will benefit from the Scientist AI (i.e. "think like a product owner")
• As the organization and technology matures, start building out more formal roadmaps and project requirement documents (PRDs), which align with LawZero's broader GTM, technology adoption and organizational strategy
• As the organization and technology matures, assist leadership, marketing and other teams to increase user adoption, acquire customers and raise funding