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ABOUT THE TEAM

U.S. AI Policy is a new team at Coefficient Giving built under Caleb Watney https://coefficientgiving.org/team/caleb-watney/, our managing director of Public Policy. Our goal is to lay the groundwork for thoughtful U.S. governance of AI by building institutional capacity, supporting durable cross-partisan coalitions, and strengthening the organizations best positioned to shape how this technology develops. We’re hiring for a founding team to significantly expand our ambition and meet the moment.

We expect that new AI policy grantmakers at CG will allocate $20m+ per year—and sometimes substantially more—to high-impact organizations. Grantmakers in this space can have significant counterfactual impact by helping to seed organizations and sub-fields that wouldn't otherwise exist, driving special projects that wouldn't otherwise happen, and helping organizations scale ambitiously. In addition to growing our team, we're streamlining our internal processes so that each team member can move with even more speed and ambition than before.

ABOUT COEFFICIENT GIVING

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy https://coefficientgiving.org/research/open-philanthropy-is-now-coefficient-giving/) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $5 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment https://coefficientgiving.org/our-approach/ to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/science-and-global-health-rd/, Navigating Transformative AI https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/, Abundance & Growth https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/abundance-and-growth/, Farm Animal Welfare https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/farm-animal-welfare/, and more https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/. In 2025, we recommended more than $1 billion to high-impact causes.

We’re proud of our track record:

- We jump-started the field of AI safety and security https://coefficientgiving.org/research/ai-program-update-navigating-transformative-ai/ and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria https://www.mbdialogues.org/.

- Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.

- We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-025-00245-8#:~:text=Uganda%20is%20at%20the%20forefront,M%20vaccine%20to%20105%20districts..

- We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2024/12/mayor-adams-governor-hochul-speaker-adams-celebrates-passage-most-pro-housing-proposal-in in New York, and SB 79 https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/governor-newsom-builds-on-this-years-historic-housing-reforms-signs-legislation-to-accelerate-housing-and-affordability/ in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.

ROLES WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We're hiring for multiple roles on our U.S. AI Policy team and one Chief of Staff on the Public Policy team. Exact titles may be adjusted depending on the seniority and portfolio of the candidate.

- Multiple active grantmakers. We are looking for people who collectively cover a few core aptitudes across technical substance and policy knowledge. Strong candidates will bring real depth in at least one of the following: - Technical fluency. You follow frontier AI capabilities and risks closely enough to have independent judgment about them, and can translate that understanding into terms that are understandable to policymakers. - Policy entrepreneurship. You can identify the organizations and ideas that need to exist, and find or develop the founders to build them. - Coalition-building and political economy. You understand how civil society coalitions form and shift, and can help build durable cross-partisan support for AI governance that survives changes in power.

- Chief of Staff to Caleb Watney: We are also looking for a Chief of Staff to act as a force multiplier for Caleb by helping him focus on the team’s top priorities, advising on important decisions, and owning initial drafts or full segments of his portfolio.

The role descriptions above are intentionally broad and cover various levels of scope and seniority. This reflects our willingness to shape the role around the backgrounds and skills of specific candidates. Above all, we are looking for people who are motivated and equipped with the right skills to drive positive change in U.S. AI policy.

If you are interested in working on our U.S. AI Policy team and have a vision for how you can contribute that doesn't map cleanly onto the roles above, please apply and tell us what role you want to play.

GRANTMAKING ROLES

Across all our teams, grantmakers might:

- Identify the most important projects and organizations that need to exist, and make them happen. Our grantmaking work is increasingly proactive — scoping out priority projects, finding or developing the right founders, and actively building new initiatives rather than waiting for proposals to come in.

- Investigate grant opportunities. Essentially, a grant investigation is a focused, practical research project aimed at answering the question, “Should this project be funded, and at what level?”

- Own special projects that go beyond grantmaking. Some examples include incubating impactful projects, headhunting founders, and working with for-profit entities to achieve

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