Policy Partnerships Lead

Location: Remote/SF Bay Area

Type: Full-Time

About the Role:

As our Policy Partnerships Lead, you’ll lead the charge in turning LMArena’s values of neutrality, openness, and scientific rigor into real-world momentum. This role bridges our external relationships and go-to-market strategy, translating trust and credibility from the research and policy world into adoption, usage, and long-term platform growth.

You’ll work closely with academic institutions, policy leaders, think tanks, nonprofits, and industry collaborators to shape how LMArena is integrated into the AI ecosystem. Your work will help seed the platform in early research, policy conversations, and education, while building the kind of legitimacy and reach that drives community participation at scale.

This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering with product, marketing, and leadership. You’ll help define not just what we build, but who it’s for, and ensure our most trusted ecosystem partners help legitimize it into the world.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and activate key ecosystem partners (academic, nonprofit, industry) that can drive early usage, generate signal, and expand LMArena’s public footprint

• Help shape messaging and positioning in collaboration with marketing and product to ensure alignment with values of openness, neutrality, and scientific rigor

• Build frameworks for measuring ecosystem-driven impact on adoption, trust, and product feedback loops

• Develop and maintain clear messaging and public facing content about LMArena’s methodology and contributions to public understanding, regulatory discussions, and platform trust

• Convert ecosystem relationships into distribution channels by co-launching features, research, or evaluations that drive usage and credibility

• Build early access and adoption programs with research labs, academic partners, and nonprofits to generate usage, trust, and organic word-of-mouth

• Develop GTM partnerships that help seed LMArena into research workflows, educational settings, and regulatory discussions, expanding reach and relevance

• Collaborate with marketing and product to turn ecosystem insights into high-leverage content, case studies, and positioning for new features

• Define metrics and feedback loops to measure how ecosystem engagement contributes to user acquisition, activation, and long-term trust

Who is LMArena?

Created by researchers from UC Berkeley’s SkyLab, LMArena is an open platform where everyone can easily access, explore and interact with the world’s leading AI models. By comparing them side by side and casting votes for the better response, the community helps shape a public leaderboard, making AI progress more transparent, and grounded in real-world usage.

Why Join Us?

Trusted by organizations like Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and more, LMArena is rapidly becoming essential infrastructure for transparent, human-centered AI evaluation at scale. With over one million monthly users and growing developer adoption, our impact is helping guide the next generation of safe, aligned AI systems—grounded in open access and collective feedback.

Our work is regularly referenced by industry leaders pushing the frontier of safe and reliable AI. Sundar Pichai, Jeff Dean, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman.

• High Impact: Your work will be used daily by the world’s most advanced AI labs.

• Global Reach: Develop data infrastructure powering millions of real-world evaluations, influencing AI reliability across industries at the top-tier

• Exceptional Team: We are a small team of top talent from Google, DeepMind, Discord, Vercel, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.

Requirements:

• 6-10 years of experience across policy, research strategy, GTM partnerships, or external affairs in a tech or research-driven environment

• A deep network within the AI research or governance space—trusted by both builders and critics

• Experience translating complex methodologies into frameworks that build trust and drive adoption

• Demonstrated success building multi-stakeholder initiatives or partnerships that resulted in measurable ecosystem impact

• Skilled communicator: comfortable moving between technical, academic, policy, and GTM audiences

• Strong alignment with LMArena’s values: openness, neutrality, scientific rigor, and community-led progress

• Experience turning relationships and policy conversations into content marketing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in applied AI policy, AI safety orgs, or open science initiatives

• Familiarity with emerging global governance frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, OECD AI Principles, Frontier Model Forum)

• Background in AI benchmarking, evaluation tooling, or model deployment standards

• Track record of thought leadership or convening in areas related to responsible AI or infrastructure for public trust

What we offer:

• The cash compensation for this position in the market is yet to be determined. Actual compensation will depend on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and candidate location. 

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team

• A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact

Come help build the space where anyone can explore and help shape the future of AI.