Senior Director, ASML
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Location: Cambridge, MA 02138
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Job Summary
The Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University's Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, "pop-up" research initiative to accelerate progress on social media's most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in timebound collaboration, the Institute aims to improve the state of digital social spaces through multi-model output.
Growing out of RSM, the Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), draws practitioners from industry to develop new products, tools, and protocols for social media. Teams of technologists will work in thematic 'pods', generating and driving new ideas, projects, and experiments around themes like Trust and Safety Tooling, Political Deliberation, Disinformation Mitigation and more. The lab's output will range from white papers to fully-functional product prototypes.
The Senior Director of the Applied Social Media Lab will oversee day-to-day strategy and operations of all staff (25 - 30 direct reports) and technical work. Working closely with the ASML Director and Faculty Directors, this individual will manage first-line managers across multiple teams and disciplines. They should have proven success leading large scale, strategic, and complex efforts across organizations and experience managing executive stakeholders and conflicting priorities.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience managing large-scale initiatives and teams.
Additional Qualifications and Skills
We are looking for people who have:
Working Conditions
This position is based primarily on campus with the opportunity for remote work based on business needs and manager approval.
Additional Information
This is a term appointment currently expected to extend through 6/30/25, with potential for renewal subject to funding and departmental need.
We regret that Harvard Law School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.
All offers to be made by HLS Human Resources.
Be a part of excellence and leadership in legal education and scholarship at Harvard Law School. We are a community of talented people from diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives, dedicated to advancing the cause of justice all over theworld. We value our differences and our diversity as a source of strength. We are committed to developing and inspiring our students and our workforce. Whoever you are, whatever you do, however you do it,Harvard Law Schoolis a place where you can thrive.
The Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University's Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, "pop-up" research initiative to accelerate progress on social media's most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in timebound collaboration, the Institute aims to improve the state of digital social spaces through multi-model output.
Growing out of RSM, the Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), draws practitioners from industry to develop new products, tools, and protocols for social media. Teams of technologists will work in thematic 'pods', generating and driving new ideas, projects, and experiments around themes like Trust and Safety Tooling, Political Deliberation, Disinformation Mitigation and more. The lab's output will range from white papers to fully-functional product prototypes.
The Senior Director of the Applied Social Media Lab will oversee day-to-day strategy and operations of all staff (25 - 30 direct reports) and technical work. Working closely with the ASML Director and Faculty Directors, this individual will manage first-line managers across multiple teams and disciplines. They should have proven success leading large scale, strategic, and complex efforts across organizations and experience managing executive stakeholders and conflicting priorities.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience managing large-scale initiatives and teams.
Additional Qualifications and Skills
We are looking for people who have:
- Proven success leading large-scale, strategic, and complex efforts across organizations.
- Experience managing product and technical teams, ideally in industry.
- Excitement to drive on products, projects, and additional outputs in the public interest.
- Ability to leverage networks in public interest technology.
- Experience managing executive stakeholders.
Working Conditions
This position is based primarily on campus with the opportunity for remote work based on business needs and manager approval.
Additional Information
This is a term appointment currently expected to extend through 6/30/25, with potential for renewal subject to funding and departmental need.
We regret that Harvard Law School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.
All offers to be made by HLS Human Resources.
Be a part of excellence and leadership in legal education and scholarship at Harvard Law School. We are a community of talented people from diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives, dedicated to advancing the cause of justice all over theworld. We value our differences and our diversity as a source of strength. We are committed to developing and inspiring our students and our workforce. Whoever you are, whatever you do, however you do it,Harvard Law Schoolis a place where you can thrive.