Program Lead, Safety, Wellbeing and Regulatory

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## **About Inflection AI** Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. We’re shaping the future of AI by combining emotional intelligence (EQ) and raw intelligence (IQ) to elevate people’s potential. Inflection AI created Pi, the world’s first emotionally intelligent AI, to help people work through decisions, emotions, and challenges. Pi is a personal AI agent powered by Inflection AI’s foundation model, proving that AI can be personal, empathetic, and contextually aware. **About Inflection AI Limited** Inflection AI Limited is the Irish subsidiary of Inflection AI, Inc., a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. We’re shaping the future of AI by combining emotional intelligence (EQ) and raw intelligence (IQ) to elevate people’s potential. Inflection AI, Inc. created Pi, the world’s first emotionally intelligent AI, to help people work through decisions, emotions, and challenges. Pi is a personal AI agent that is pro-social, empathetic, and contextually aware. ## **About the Role** This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth AI company as Inflection AI's first hire in Ireland and a critical member of our global Safety, Wellbeing & Trust team. You will be responsible for shaping and leading the company’s strategy and approach to privacy, regulatory, and corporate compliance–including GDPR, the EU AI Act, and other applicable regulations–while also ensuring consistent, effective day-to-day enforcement of our content and safety policies worldwide. In this role, you will be instrumental in establishing our presence in Ireland and ensuring that our products, operations, and teams scale responsibly and safely anchored in our public benefit mission, values, legal obligations, and commitments. This role requires a leader with strong judgment, credibility, and executive presence — someone equally comfortable navigating policy, operations, regulatory engagement, and cross-functional decision-making in a fast-moving, high-growth environment as well as detail-oriented, execution-focused and operational work. ## **What You'll Do** - Own global content and safety enforcement end to end policy enforcement, misuse detection and response, case resolution, and escalation protocols. - Act as the senior escalation point and incident lead for complex safety, integrity, reputational, and operational issues. - Build internal governance and risk frameworks for AI safety, content moderation, and platform integrity, partnering with Product, Engineering, Legal, Security, Policy, and Operations. - Serve as operational lead for GDPR and broader regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, Digital Services Act), and support the relationship with the Irish Data Protection Commission as our lead EU supervisory authority. - Direct how Inflection AI processes EU personal data, setting the purposes and means in coordination with the Ireland-based board and U.S. leadership. - Build and maintain the Irish entity's compliance documentation: records of processing activities, data protection impact assessments, and privacy policies. - Help stand up and scale Inflection AI's Ireland office recruiting and onboarding the local team, and partnering with Legal, outside counsel, and local regulators to keep the Irish entity fully operational and in good standing. ## **You Will Have** - 7+ years of experience in trust & safety operations, privacy/data protection, regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, or a combination of these fields - Significant experience enforcing on highly graphic or disturbing content in sensitive areas, including child sexual exploitation, hate/defamation, sex crimes, violence, suicide and self harm, mental health, or other physical or relational hazards. - Strong program management skills you can drive complex, cross-functional workstreams independently from scoping through execution - Ability to work autonomously with limited local infrastructure and make sound decisions with incomplete information. - Comfort operating as a senior individual contributor who will build a team over time - Experience developing and implementing proactive risk management frameworks, escalation protocols, and crisis management playbooks. - Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with legal, engineering and product teams, across different time zones and geographies - Demonstrated experience building and running enforcement or compliance operations programs at a technology company - Familiarity with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions and regulations, including GDPR, EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, or cross-border data transfer mechanisms (SCCs, BCRs) - Based in Ireland or willing to relocate to Dublin - Occasional travel (< 15%) within Europe, UK, and US ## **Nice to Have** - Experience with AI products, large language models, or conversational AI platforms is strongly preferred - Experience standing up a new office, team, or function in Ireland for a U.S.-based technology company ## **Employee Pay Disclosures** At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. For this role, Inflection AI estimates a starting annual base salary to fall within the range of **EUR 150,000 to EUR 275,000**, depending on a candidate’s qualifications and level of experience. This role also includes a meaningful equity component, allowing employees to share in the long-term success of the company. ### **Benefits** Inflection AI values and supports our team’s mental and physical health. We are focused on building a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring place to work. Our benefits include: - Robust medical, dental and vision options - Pension matching program - 4 weeks of Paid Time Off and company paid holidays - Parental, Medical and Family care leave - Generous cell-phone, wellness and office set up stipends