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# Operations Admin Lead – Executive Office at LawZero

- **Company:** LawZero
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lawzero/jobs/4315680009

## Job description

The Operations Administration Lead will serve as a strategic partner to LawZero’s executive leadership team and play a central role in supporting the organization’s operations. The successful candidate will also work closely with Professor Yoshua Bengio’s office at Mila (the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) to coordinate the administrative activities associated with his role as Co-Chair of LawZero. In this role, you will be expected to quickly understand the context and priorities behind incoming requests, facilitate the flow of information across teams, and establish efficient processes to ensure the smooth day-to-day coordination of the executive leadership team’s activities.

## Key responsibilities

1. Operations and Administrative Task Management

- Email Management: Manage email inboxes dedicated to LawZero; analyze, sort, and prioritize incoming messages to ensure that critical opportunities and strategic matters are addressed promptly.
- Email and Calendar Coordination: Proactively translate email requests into concrete actions on the calendar, anticipating logistical needs and the preparation time required for members of the executive team.

1. Inter-entity Liaison and Operational Synergy

- Operational Liaison: Act as a bridge between the LawZero team, the team at the main office of Co-President Yoshua Bengio in Mila, and other entities as needed, to better align internal communication and collaboration.
- Proactive Communication of Priorities: Extract and forward relevant calendar and travel information to the LawZero executive team to optimize strategic opportunities.

1. Strategic and Logistical Travel Planning

- Advance planning: Ensure that LawZero’s priorities are incorporated from the initial stage of modeling the overall calendar and during the planning of international travel (a proactive rather than reactive approach).
- Support for triage: Develop a protocol for triaging requests, in collaboration with Yoshua Bengio’s office team, to approve, decline, or delegate invitations and opportunities for all members of LawZero’s executive team.
- Budget tracking: Coordinate travel logistics, including the preparation and reconciliation of expense reports related to executive travel.

1. Optimization and Special Projects

- Continuous Improvement: Analyze, propose, and implement tools or templates to automate and standardize document management and administrative follow-ups.
- Ad Hoc Project Management: Take charge of coordinating one-time internal events, strategic meetings, or special projects related to LawZero’s operational development.

## Skills and qualifications

- Experience: 2 to 5 years of experience in executive support or managing complex administrative operations, ideally in a multi-entity environment (connected ecosystems, matrix structures, or service firms).
- High-Volume Email Management: Demonstrated ability to manage massive email flows, distill key points, and draft responses independently.
- Interpersonal Skills: A professional, advisory-oriented approach, a high degree of discretion, and the ability to interact diplomatically with a diverse range of partners and stakeholders.
- Collaboration: A natural ability to collaborate effectively with different teams, manage varied priorities, and maintain positive relationships.
- Organizational Skills and Structure: An analytical and rigorous mindset, focused on solutions, with a passion for optimizing evolving processes and anticipating logistical needs.
- Bilingualism: Flawless command of French and English, both spoken and written, as the majority of daily communications take place on an international scale.

## Why this role is unique

This role goes beyond simple administrative management to become a true strategic driver. You will act as a key liaison, ensuring a smooth flow between management priorities, our partners’ requirements, and our co-president’s commitments. Your mission is to organize our day-to-day operations, anticipate logistical needs, and ensure that the executive team can focus its efforts on high-impact mission objectives, while guaranteeing the consistency and quality of our operations on an international scale.

## What we offer

- The opportunity to contribute to a unique mission with a major impact
- Comprehensive health benefits
- A minimum of 20 days vacation per year upon start
- A minimum retirement savings employer contribution of 4%
- Generous flexible benefits designed to contribute to your well-being
- A team of passionate experts in their field
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment with offices in the heart of Little Italy, in the trendy Mile-Ex district, close to public transportation.

## About LawZero

LawZero is a non-profit organization committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems. Its scientific direction is based on new research and methods proposed by Professor Yoshua Bengio, the most cited AI researcher in the world. Based in Montreal, LawZero’s research aims to build non-agentic AI that learns primarily to understand the world rather than to act in it, giving truthful answers to questions based on transparent and externalized probabilistic reasoning. Such AI systems could be used to accelerate scientific discovery, to provide oversight for agentic AI systems, and to advance the understanding of AI risks and how to avoid them. LawZero believes that AI should be cultivated as a global public good—developed and used safely towards human flourishing. For more information, visit [www.lawzero.org](https://www.lawzero.org/)

You belong here

At LawZero, diversity is important to us. We value a work environment that is fair, open and respectful of differences. We welcome applications from highly qualified individuals interested in working towards our mission in a respectful, inclusive and collaborative setting.

Your personal information will be collected and processed by LawZero to evaluate your application for employment in compliance with our [Privacy Policy](https://lawzero.org/en/website-privacy-notice). Under privacy laws in force in your country of residence, you may have several privacy rights, such as to request access to your personal information or to request that your personal information be rectified or erased. Details on how you can exercise your rights can be found in our Privacy Policy.

## About LawZero

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LawZero is a Canadian nonprofit research organization developing "Scientist AI," a non-agentic, safe-by-design artificial intelligence system.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Nonprofit research organization; funded through philanthropic grants)
- **Headquarters**: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- **Founded**: June 3, 2025
- **Founders**: Yoshua Bengio

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Safety Research
- **Target customers**: The organization is not a commercial entity; its research outputs are intended for the global public good, with potential downstream users including governments, AI companies, and scientific researchers.
- **Mission or purpose**: To develop AI systems that are "safe by design" through technical research insulated from commercial and government pressures, cultivated as a global public good.

## Products & Services
- **Scientist AI**: A novel, non-agentic AI system designed to understand the world through probabilistic reasoning, produce transparent and auditable predictions, and have no hidden goals or preferences. The system is built on three mechanisms: contextualization (separating facts from opinions), consequence invariance (preventing feedback from downstream outcomes), and a generator–estimator architecture (a creative generator held accountable by a neutral estimator). Intended uses include accelerating scientific discovery, providing guardrails for agentic AI systems, and advancing understanding of AI risks. **Type**: Research / Technical Framework

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (nonprofit)
- **Key Metric**: Total Philanthropic Funding: > US$35 million (as of August 2025, including a grant from the Gates Foundation). An additional > CAD$100 million in financial backing from the Government of Canada was under discussion as of February 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Funders include Jaan Tallinn, Schmidt Sciences, Coefficient Giving, the Future of Life Institute, and the Gates Foundation. Operating partner is Mila – Quebec AI Institute. Affiliated with MATS (AI-alignment training program).
- **Growth Signals**: Launched in June 2025 with ~15 researchers; grew to ~30 employees by February 2026, with stated plans to expand to more than 100 within a year. Secured significant government interest (letter of intent from the Government of Canada). Inaugural board and global advisory council announced in January 2026, including high-profile members such as historian Yuval Noah Harari and former Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Löfven.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder Reputation**: Founded by Yoshua Bengio, the world’s most cited living AI researcher and a Turing Prize winner, lending unparalleled scientific credibility.
- **Mission-Driven Position**: Operates as a nonprofit, explicitly insulated from market and government pressures, which differentiates its research from major for-profit AI labs (e.g., OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic).
- **Unique Technical Approach**: Its core concept, "Scientist AI," is a fundamentally different path to advanced AI—non-agentic and designed for safety from the ground up—rather than a modification of existing agentic systems.
- **Compute Advantage**: A potential partnership with the Government of Canada is structured to provide substantial compute resources (the majority of expenditure is for compute), a critical and expensive resource for frontier AI research.

## Strategic Focus
- **Research & Development**: The entire organization is focused on advancing the "Scientist AI" framework, with primary activities being theoretical research (as seen in arXiv preprints and white papers), algorithm development, and building the technical architecture.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring to scale the research team from ~30 to over 100 people within the next year.
- **Global Governance**: Building a global advisory council and board to influence AI safety policy and standards, in addition to technical research.
- **Scientific Application**: One concrete application area being explored is the use of Scientist AI to accelerate drug discovery and scientific research, supported by the Gates Foundation grant.

## Why Work Here
- **Highly Mission-Driven**: A rare opportunity to work on fundamental AI safety research at a nonprofit, free from the commercial pressures of major AI labs. The explicit goal is to build AI as a global public good.
- **World-Class Leadership**: Work directly under and alongside Yoshua Bengio and a leadership team with deep expertise in AI.
- **Growth Trajectory**: The organization is in a rapid scaling phase (growing from 15 to 100+ people), offering early employees significant influence and rapid career growth.
- **Prime Location**: Based in Montréal, a major AI research hub with access to talent from Mila and top universities.
- **Policy Impact**: Involvement with a high-profile global advisory council that includes former heads of state, offering a chance to shape AI governance.
- **Work Environment**: The culture emphasizes safety, mission integrity, and rigorous scientific research. The organization is structured as a research lab, not a commercial entity.

## Sources
1. [LawZero Official Website](https://lawzero.org/en)
2. [LawZero Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lawzero)
3. [Wikipedia - LawZero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawZero)
4. [LawZero Team Page](https://lawzero.org/en/team)
5. [LawZero Research Page](https://lawzero.org/en/research)

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