Field Strategy Specialist

Produce strategies that shape what gets built to protect humanity. We are a nonprofit startup building the workforce that protects humanity. Since 2022, we have trained over 6,000 people in AI safety and biosecurity. Our alumni work at Anthropic, DeepMind, the UK AI Safety Institute, and dozens of other organisations shaping how transformative technologies affect the world. We are a small team based in London, expanding to San Francisco in 2026. We raised $25M in 2025. This year, we’re launching an incubator to help entrepreneurs found new projects and ventures. Your field strategy documents would steer that incubator.

Why this role matters

Many important problems in AI safety and biosecurity are bottlenecked by a lack of strategic clarity. We have a vague intuition that something in X domain matters, but it’s unclear what success looks like, what the bottlenecks are, whether we’re on track, and what entrepreneurial people should go and build. As the world wakes up to the dangers posed by powerful AI, billions of dollars will flow into these fields. There are nowhere near enough well-scoped projects or teams ready to turn that capital into risk reduction. Your job is to figure out what should exist, why it doesn’t exist yet, and make it legible enough that it can get built. You’ll rapidly get to the frontier of a new field, talk to all the people who actually know things, form sharp views on what matters, and produce documents that are clear enough to shape what founders build and what funders back.

What you’ll do

• Rapidly get to the frontier of a specific domain
  • Read the best existing material on a problem area and orient fast.
  • Build a map of the field: who’s working on what, what’s been tried, where the key disagreements are.
  • Find the people with the most important tacit knowledge. Many of the juiciest insights live in people’s heads, not on the public web.
• Talk to the people who actually know things
  • Conduct 50 interviews in 50 days. You’ll connect with people via cold outreach and warm introductions.
  • Build trust quickly so people are willing to share non-public information with you. Ask sharp questions to extract non-obvious insights.
  • Identify where experts agree, where they disagree, and why.
  • Maintain a living document of critical unknowns: scientific uncertainties, technical feasibility questions, and cost estimates nobody has pinned down. Write briefs clear enough that researchers can pick them up and run.
• Produce strategy that shapes what gets built
  • Identify the concrete projects an entrepreneur could build and scale, then communicate them to founders, funders and the broader field so people start moving quickly in the right direction.
  • Entrepreneurs will stress-test your strategies against reality, and you’ll iterate and update the strategy with them.

A strong first six months looks like producing 3 field strategy docs that inform which ventures we help launch or how a funder deploys millions of dollars. You’ll report to a senior member of the team, and you’ll work in a small team with other field strategists.

Example projects

You might work on questions like: Over time, we expect this role to shape not just individual interventions, but our broader view of which domains BlueDot should prioritize.

About you

We are especially excited about smart generalists. You do not need prior domain expertise in biosecurity, technical AI safety or policy to be a great fit. You might be a great fit if you:

• Learn extremely fast. You can become one of the most informed people in a narrow area within weeks. You read fast and synthesise conflicting views into a coherent take.
• Get spicy information out of people. You build trust fast, ask questions that get people excited, and become someone that experts want to introduce to people they admire.
• Think like a strategist, not a researcher. You care about what should actually get built. You notice when prevailing views don’t add up due to groupthink, conflicts of interest, or untested assumptions, and you’re willing to argue that intervention X matters more than Y with evidence and reasoning. But you change your mind fast when better evidence or arguments show up.
• Write clearly. Your strategy docs are sharp enough that a founder reads them and gains conviction, or a funder reads them and changes how they deploy capital. You don’t waffle.
• Are entrepreneurial. You don’t wait for permission. You’re ambitious about what should exist in the world and you can’t wait to make it happen.

You might be a founder or former founder, a policy or operator generalist, a researcher who’s dying to leave academia, or a PM / chief of staff with unusually good judgment. We encourage speculative applications — most strong candidates won’t meet all these criteria!

What we offer

• High-leverage work: Your output will directly shape new ventures, programs, and how millions of dollars gets deployed.
• Rapid learning: This role is designed for people who want to get to the frontier of important domains quickly. You’ll talk to the best people in the field within your first few days.
• San Francisco preferred: We’d love you to work in-person with the team in SF, with flexibility for exceptional candidates. US visa sponsorship available.
• Freedom and autonomy: Our expense policy is "act in BlueDot’s best interest", unlimited PTO, minimal bureaucracy.
• Creative freedom: We expect to shape the role around the strengths of an exceptional hire.
• $120-180k salary depending on experience, 10% employer 401(k) contribution (no match required), and comprehensive health insurance.

Apply today

Applying takes 20-30 minutes, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We’re evaluating candidates on a rolling basis and want to make an offer quickly.

If you have any questions about the role, email dewi@bluedot.org.