Head of Policy
Odyssey · Washington, DC · 4 mo ago
RemoteRemoteManagementFull-time
What We’re Looking For
The Head of Policy at Odyssey is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the CEO. The ideal candidate will:
- Represent the company in the rooms where the rules for frontier AI are being shaped.
- Help define how world models should be understood, governed, and deployed.
- Navigate a fast-moving regulatory and geopolitical environment.
- Build trusted relationships with policymakers and government partners.
- Ensure our research and product decisions are informed by a clear policy perspective.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain Odyssey’s positions across the AI governance landscape, aligned with our research direction and company strategy.
- Define Odyssey’s policy position on world models, including the governance principles and frameworks needed to establish the category.
- Lead Odyssey’s engagement with regulators, policymakers, and government partners across the US and more, and represent the company in external forums.
- Partner closely with research and product teams to assess the policy implications of what we build.
- Translate regulatory and geopolitical developments into clear recommendations for the CEO and leadership team.
- Stand up the policy function from the ground up, setting the priorities and building the playbook.
Who You Are
- 5+ years in policy, government, or a related field, with a focus on AI or other emerging technologies.
- Deep fluency in the national-security and geopolitical dynamics of AI, and how policy and global regulation shape what a frontier lab can build and where.
- A strong grasp of the AI policy landscape and the debates around governance, safety, and accountability.
- Direct experience in or with the US government.
- You understand how policy is actually made, and how to engage policymakers and officials to shape it.
- A strong writer who can develop a framework or point of view that shapes how others think.
- Tech-savvy enough to be credible with frontier AI researchers, and able to translate between technical and policy audiences.
- Energized by building a function from zero; setting direction and operating independently before a team exists.
- Comfortable with frequent travel between the San Francisco Bay Area, Washington, D.C., and London.