Future Humans Senior Program Manager

Future Humans is seeking a Senior Program Manager to support the program’s operations, logistics, and network development. The Senior Program Manager will join the Future Humans Associate Director and Program Coordinator to drive the successful implementation of the program’s unique model of experimental and experiential philosophical exploration.

Future Humans launched in Fall 2022 and is a developing program within the Institute. Our research traces how the category of the human is shifting and asks, what life will become in the future? Explorations include synthetic and artificial life forms, emergent theories of mind and material, and the condition of extraplanetarity. Projects include the Vaster than Empires science and speculative fiction workshop, the Future Techne Salons, and the Multispecies Constitution. The program has a strong public-facing arts and design perspective.

Future Humans has developed original ideas through publications and programming with intellectual and institutional partners and now seeks to greatly extend them in a variety of fora. The ambition now is to further develop original ideas with extraordinary thinkers and propagate them in the world around three core Research Areas: Time & Consciousness, The Alien, and Embodiment. The ultimate goal is to contribute to a new episteme of life.

The team seeks a Senior Program Manager who will support the development and deployment of experimental platforms, immersive experiences, and publications. These processes and outputs will grow the frameworks and texts originating from the Future Humans’s program across a broader global community. This will include collaborations with the Institute’s Europe and Asia Centers and a broad network of research and cultural institutions. Future Humans will continue to cultivate a focused cohort of world-class scholars, scientists, speculative fiction writers, futurists, and creators and elevate that work to the world’s stage through original intellectual and creative projects.

The Future Humans Program Manager will play a crucial role in building a foundation for long-term growth of our Research Areas. This person will support:

Robust, regular, and formalized internal and external stakeholder engagement plans
The formalization of the Future Humans model for immersive experiences, signature events, and workshops that support our theory of change
A rubric to establish, develop, and execute the Future Humans project pipeline that balances effort with impact. This includes supervising someone in the program coordinator role
An aggressive publication strategy that will support the popularization and propagation of new categories of knowledge-building
A Comms and PR plan that will catalyze and broadly promote the work of Future Humans to generate a steady pipeline of high-quality, original, and thought-provoking content in novel forms
A development plan devoted to creating an efficient pipeline for finalizing and promoting Future Humans outputs: essays, films, lectures, artworks, conversations

Required Experience & Skills:

Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree a bonus
3-5 years’ experience in Project & Program Management with specialization in creative and experimental event and media production
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship-building skills
Practiced in managing up, down, and laterally to ensure successful project implementation and reports to key stakeholders
Experienced in managing individuals/teams and ensuring appropriate goals are set and deliverables are met
Brings a systems mindset to work, creating repeatable and easy-to-navigate structures and processes that allow for flexibility and iteration to achieve scale
Confident working independently as well as building collaborative coalitions to identify gaps and bring solutions / resources to drive projects
Familiarity with collaborative platforms such as Slack, Asana, Google Suite, and other tools to drive execution of projects, deliverables, and events

Additional Desired Experience:

Excited about realizing an emergent episteme of life that Future Humans will contribute to defining in the 21st century and beyond
Curious about science, technology, philosophy, and design, and motivated to expand and deepen knowledge through practice
Proactive and biased towards action; can confidently navigate ambiguity and create clear pathways to realize ambitious and experimental projects through deploying internal and external resources
Confident acting as subject matter expert on all things project operations, processes, and budget; comfortable interfacing with senior leadership, external stakeholders, and internal collaborators
Familiar with established and emerging art and media forms (fine art, new media, design, architecture) and experienced in managing collaborative creative projects

Work Perks:

Hybrid office work model
Exceptional 401k plan
Health, dental, and vision
Paid vacation, sick, and holiday pay
Phone reimbursement
Dog-friendly workplace
Snacks and gourmet coffee

The hiring range for this position is $90,000 - $110,000 per year commensurate with experience.

Please email the cover letter and resume to careers@berggruen.org. No phone calls please.

Berggruen Institute is a proud equal opportunities workplace. We firmly believe employing a diverse workforce is important regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Berggruen Institute is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.