Talent Mobilization Program Lead at Constellation Network

About this role

The future of AI safety will be shaped by who works on what, and when. As Talent Mobilization Lead, you'll help create the infrastructure needed to mobilize talent into and within the AI safety ecosystem.

This is a cross-functional, high-autonomy leadership role. You'll set the strategy and approach for how Constellation deploys talent across the ecosystem, working with individual talent, leading research labs, and operational teams across organizational boundaries. You'll lead and develop a team, serve as a recognized domain expert, and partner closely with senior leadership on field-level strategy.

You'll also have latitude to identify and pursue new opportunities for how Constellation shows up in the ecosystem whether that's a new program, a new partnership model, or a new way of supporting talent that doesn't exist yet. If you see a gap, you have the latitude to build toward it.

This role is for a proven operator and talent expert who can simultaneously set direction, build systems, and manage relationships at the field level — someone who earns trust across a wide range of stakeholders and uses that trust to drive meaningful impact.

Key responsibilities

These are the functions we've identified so far — but we expect the right person to come in, spot gaps we've missed, and make this role their own.

Strategic Talent Deployment

Set the strategy for how Constellation identifies, assesses, and places talent across technical, policy, operational, and interdisciplinary domains. Define approaches for sourcing, vetting, matchmaking, and placement. Proactively identify and engage high-potential individuals (often before others do) and guide them toward roles with outsized impact.

Career Transitions & Advisory Support

Serve as a senior advisor for individuals navigating pivotal career transitions — from fellowships to frontier labs, from academia to applied AI safety, from industry to policy. Develop and maintain resources that support these moves: curated job boards, pathway guides, and specialized channels for active opportunities. Coordinate warm handoffs to hiring organizations and domain-specific advisors.

Team Leadership & Development

Lead, mentor, and develop team members. Set clear direction for the team, provide high-quality feedback, and invest in the professional growth of junior staff. Model the judgment, relationships, and operational excellence that define great talent mobilization.

Cross-Functional & Ecosystem Collaboration

Partner closely with Research Program Managers, operations staff, and senior leadership to anticipate upcoming talent needs and facilitate placements from internal programs. Build and maintain trusted relationships with external field-building organizations (80,000 Hours, BlueDot, and others) to share intelligence, reduce duplication, and strengthen collective efforts.

Field Intelligence & Ecosystem Strategy

Track and analyze talent flows, hiring trends, and emerging gaps in the AI safety field. Maintain a high-context understanding of organizational needs, leadership shifts, and strategic priorities across the ecosystem. Translate insights into new initiatives, partnerships, or programs and have the latitude to pursue them.

Infrastructure & Process Leadership

Own the tooling, systems, and processes that enable talent tracking and matchmaking at scale. Define standards for high-quality introductions, placements, and follow-ups. Lead the design, launch, and evaluation of new talent deployment initiatives as the team grows. Identify gaps in how the field supports talent and propose, pilot, and build new programs or interventions to address them. This isn't a role where the scope is fixed; the right person will find opportunities we haven't seen yet.

Skills & experience

You may be a good fit if you:

- Have 7+ years of experience in talent development, recruiting, program management, or people operations; ideally in mission-driven, technical, or complex environments

- Have an entrepreneurial instinct; you spot opportunities, make a case for them, and have the follow-through to build them out.

- Operate autonomously on highly complex or ambiguous work, set approaches rather than following them, and know when to escalate

- Are a recognized domain expert in talent strategy, capable of shaping how the field thinks about talent mobilization

- Have led cross-functional or high-stakes projects and are comfortable influencing across organizational boundaries without formal authority

- Bring strong interpersonal judgment and can hold high-trust, nuanced conversations with a wide range of stakeholders (from early-career fellows to frontier lab executives)

- Have strong operational instincts; organized, systems-minded, and able to triage, follow up, and execute effectively at scale

- Are familiar with the AI safety ecosystem (or similar mission-driven technical fields) and excited to contribute to its effectiveness and maturity

- Are mission-aligned and values-driven, with a clear sense of why this work matters

Talent Mobilization Program Lead

Job Description

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