AI Research Program Manager – Policy & Law

Harvard University; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off including par­-

Medical, dental, and vision health ins

Retirement plans with university con­t

Wellbeing and mental health resources

Support for families and caregivers

Professional development opportunities

Commuter benefits, discounts and campu

Job summary

Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society seeks a Research Manager to design and implement a portfolio of AI-related research across empirical, technical, legal, and policy domains.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, manage projects, mentor junior researchers, and contribute to scholarly outputs while coordinating with external partners to advance impactful public-interest work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; 5+ years of research, analysis, or related experience.
• Proficiency in programming languages or tools such as Python, R, or SQL

Responsibilities

• Manage the quality and development of technical and policy-oriented AI research, including tracking timelines, deliverables, and coordinating with collaborators and stakeholders.
• Contribute to high-quality academic research on AI systems and policy-oriented work on liability, copyright, and accountability.
• Implement and maintain technical research workflows across multiple models and compute environments to support rigorous, reproducible, and policy-relevant AI research.
• Contribute to academic outputs (e.g. policy briefs, research papers) and public-facing scholarship and commentary (e.g. essays, op-eds), seeing them through to publication.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage junior researchers, research assistants, and interns; review technical and written work.
• Develop grant proposals, including drafting proposal materials and coordinating inputs across teams, and manage post-award grant activities, including tracking deliverables and reporting requirements.
• Design and manage convenings, workshops, roundtables, seminars, and other events, including with external partners such as industry, policymakers and regulators, civil society, and academic collaborators.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Project management

Research analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Claude Code

AI workflows

Job description

Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society seeks a Research Manager to design and implement a portfolio of AI-related research across empirical, technical, legal, and policy domains.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, manage projects, mentor junior researchers, and contribute to scholarly outputs while coordinating with external partners to advance impactful public-interest work.