Project Director, AI Century Study (Part-time)
About the role
Role Overview
AIR is seeking a Project Director to provide strategic, intellectual, and operational leadership for the organization’s flagship AI Century Study. The AI Century Study is a 100-year national research effort to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping human development and society. Unlike short-term or one-time studies, the AI Century Study will return to participating families at regular intervals for repeated data collection, allowing researchers to observe how AI-related experiences and outcomes evolve across key life stages. This long-term design will help identify patterns that are difficult to detect in snapshots—and clarify how impacts differ by context, including varying access to technology and resources.
Responsibilities
The Project Director will help shape the vision and lead the execution and evolution of the AI Century Study, serving as both scientific steward and strategic leader. This role is responsible for guiding interdisciplinary teams, managing complex partnerships, and ensuring the study produces high-quality evidence that informs policy, practice, and public understanding of AI’s long-term impacts. The Project Director will work closely with AIR senior leadership, researchers across disciplines, external collaborators, and funders, and will represent the study publicly as a thought leader in AI and education research.
About the Role
At AIR, we create impact through evidence that improves lives and systems. The AI Century Study is a cornerstone of AIR’s forward-looking research agenda, addressing urgent questions about how AI is reshaping human development and society. The Project Director ensures that this work is human-centered; scientifically rigorous and methodologically innovative; credible, transparent, and policy-relevant; and designed for learning over time, not just one-off findings.
Ideal Candidate
- Bring a strong track record leading complex, multi-year research initiatives.
- Have demonstrated results with cultivating cross-sector partnerships that generate rigorous, accessible, longitudinal evidence.
- Hold intellectual curiosity for the main question driving the study: “How does the age of AI change the human condition?”
Additional Details
Engagements are typically project-based, part-time, and may vary in duration and hours depending on project needs.
This position has the flexibility to work remotely within the United States (U.S.) or from one of AIR’s U.S. office locations. This does not include U.S. territories.