Associate Director, AI Initiative, Stanford Law School

About the AI Initiative

The Stanford Law AI Initiative advances interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement with industry leaders, policymakers, and the legal profession. The AI Initiative brings together faculty, students, centers, labs, and external collaborators to inform how AI is developed, governed, and used responsibly in law and public life. Through scholarship, programming, convenings, and collaboration, the AI Initiative helps shape rigorous, practical, and forward-looking dialogue at the intersection of AI, law, and policy.

Position Summary

We are building the AI Initiative into a leading hub for AI, law and the legal profession at Stanford Law School, and we are hiring an AI-fluent operator to help run the programs, systems, and partnerships that will support its growth. The Associate Director, AI Initiative will support the Executive Director and faculty co-directors by translating high-level direction, faculty priorities, and external relationships into well-run programs and day-to-day execution.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused role for someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and manage the details that make ambitious work possible. You will oversee a broad portfolio of programs, including speaker series, roundtables, conferences, podcasts, town halls, student gatherings, and convenings. You will coordinate speakers and partners, shape agendas, prepare briefing materials, manage logistics and budgets, maintain community infrastructure, support marketing and audience engagement through newsletters and related communications, and help ensure multiple program lines run smoothly.

Success requires strong operational judgment, fluency in AI law and policy, and practical command of current genAI tools. This role is central to helping the AI Initiative scale with quality, consistency, and impact.

Core Duties

• Lead the planning and operations for internal and external groups for AI Initiative programs or functions that have significant business, regulatory and/or technical challenges requiring subject matter expertise, based on strategy alignment with the Executive Director. Act as the AI Initiative's central operational liaison with Stanford Law School's programs and centers and external partners. Run concurrent program lines with minimal supervision, including shaping topics, vetting speakers, preparing materials, and managing complex internal and external stakeholder logistics.
• Evaluate programs or functions, policies and procedures. Identify issues, and develop alternative solutions which may include changes to programs, policies and procedures. Assess program effectiveness, improve workflows and playbooks, and streamline research, drafting, and operations across concurrent program lines.
• Review and analyze trends to advise and develop recommendations to achieve or modify the goals of the program or function. Leverage fluency in AI law, policy, and ethics, along with program analytics, to identify emerging topics, assess impact, and advise on the Initiative's strategic positioning.
• Represent the AI Initiative operationally across the Law School. Coordinate resources, provide information and/or training, represent the Initiative to internal and external stakeholders, and serve as the central operational point of contact for the Law School's AI-related centers and programs.
• Manage and contribute to the development of outreach strategy that may include relationship development, communications and compliance. Build and manage AI Initiative's key external relationships (e.g. law firms, in-house leaders), and internal relationships within Stanford Law School and the broader Stanford community through newsletters, convenings, presentations, and targeted communications.
• May develop and/or oversee budgets. Support budget planning, tracking, and financial reporting for AI Initiative programs and activities.
• Assess training needs and may develop associated training. Build and maintain playbooks, briefing packets, and onboarding materials that support consistent execution and team growth.
• May supervise student research fellows as the AI Initiative's student research fellow program develops in the future.