[Hiring] Research Strategist @The Center for Shared AI Prosperity

Role Description

The Center for Shared AI Prosperity (CSAIP) is hiring a Research Strategist to shape our research agenda on what Americans want from an AI-transformed economy. This is a senior role for someone who has driven ambitious research programs and who can turn public opinion, policy analysis, and stakeholder input into concrete frameworks that move policymakers, journalists, funders, and the public.

Working closely with CSAIP's working group and board, the Research Strategist will:

• Set the direction of our research portfolio.
• Work closely with external research partners.
• Design and interpret research.
• Serve as a public-facing voice for CSAIP's findings.

You will pair with technical research partners who will drive the quantitative work, freeing you to focus on the substantive policy and strategic questions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience driving research programs in policy, advocacy, polling, academic, or think-tank settings.
• Deep fluency in survey research and polling methodology.
• Strong policy chops, particularly on economic policy and/or technology policy.
• Exceptional writer who can translate technical research and policy concepts into compelling language.
• Comfortable presenting to elected officials, funders, journalists, and organizational leadership.
• Strong understanding of the U.S. political ecosystem.
• A self-starter who can set direction at a young organization without constant oversight.
• Collaborative — comfortable partnering with technical researchers and generous about sharing credit.

Requirements

• Set CSAIP's research agenda on the public's views, fears, and demands around AI's economic impact.
• Design and oversee survey research, qualitative work, and message testing.
• Translate findings into rigorous, accessible policy briefs, white papers, and strategic memos.
• Develop and stress-test concrete policy frameworks responsive to the scale of AI-driven economic transformation.
• Maintain situational awareness across the broader AI policy landscape.
• Track federal, state, and international AI policy developments.
• Serve as a public face for CSAIP's research.
• Build and steward relationships across CSAIP's growing coalition.
• Represent CSAIP at conferences, briefings, and events.
• Work with technical and research partners to coordinate projects.
• Identify gaps in the existing AI economic policy research landscape.
• Support the working group and board on stakeholder briefings and strategic planning.

Benefits

• Salary: $125,000–$200,000
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Remote work setup, with regular in-person collaboration and travel for stakeholder engagement.
• Your work will shape one of the most important domestic policy conversations of the coming decade.
• A senior seat at a new organization, with the ability to set the research agenda.

Company Description

The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is a research coalition working to refine and compare progressive visions for a U.S. economy in which AI has replaced and disrupted a large number of jobs. CSAIP exists to listen — to ask what Americans actually believe, fear, and expect from public institutions as work is destabilized, and to support and evaluate concrete, implementable policy ideas for ensuring the gains from AI flow to every American.

Our work is guided by three principles:

• Solutions at the scale of the challenge.
• Listening to the American people.
• Soliciting and sharing great ideas.

Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.