Senior AI Opportunity Scout and Diligence Lead

OpenAI Foundation; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 250.000 - 300.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

OpenAI Foundation is seeking a senior opportunity-scouting and diligence role based in San Francisco. You will range across AI research, civil society, government, philanthropy, and communities to surface emerging capabilities and unmet needs, then determine which opportunities are technically credible and socially valuable.

You will assess whether opportunities are feasible, differentiated, and positioned for meaningful adoption, and craft concrete recommendations on funding, partnerships,

Mansioni

• Build a high-quality opportunity pipeline. Develop trusted relationships with AI researchers, engineers, founders, nonprofit leaders, public servants, domain experts, funders, and frontline organizations; use those conversations to surface ideas and capabilities that others may be overlooking.
• Track the frontier and connect it to real needs. Stay current on rapidly changing AI capabilities, limitations, costs, and implementation patterns, and identify where they create newly possible approaches to consequential social problems.
• Turn signals into concrete opportunity theses. Define the intended user, problem, proposed intervention, source of value, differentiation, risks, and path to adoption so that a broad idea can be evaluated and acted on.
• Conduct technical and strategic diligence. Assess model fit, data and infrastructure requirements, safety, cost, organizational readiness, distribution, durability, and potential for scale; distinguish what can be built now from what requires further technical progress.
• Pressure-test opportunities in the field. Work with prospective users, practitioners, and domain experts through interviews, workshops, and field visits to validate demand, surface constraints, and understand how a solution would need to fit existing systems.
• Recommend the path to execution. For the strongest opportunities, identify who should build, what resources and partners are required, and what structure best fits; present clear fund, partner, prototype, recruit, incubate, revisit, or stop recommendations.

Descrizione del lavoro

OpenAI Foundation is seeking a senior opportunity-scouting and diligence role based in San Francisco. You will range across AI research, civil society, government, philanthropy, and communities to surface emerging capabilities and unmet needs, then determine which opportunities are technically credible and socially valuable.

You will assess whether opportunities are feasible, differentiated, and positioned for meaningful adoption, and craft concrete recommendations on funding, partnerships,