Head of Policy

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.