American Psychological Association

Director

• Chair and manage the Youth Safety & Wellbeing Scientific Advisory Group
• Set agendas, recruit and steward advisory members, and run a peer-level scientific forum
• Serve as CBSAI’s scientific representative for the Youth Safety & Wellbeing priority area
• Maintain a current network across academia, clinical practice, and industry research
• Own the Specifications workstream and translate behavioral science into usable specifications for engineering and product teams
• Translate scientific evidence into engineer-ready product and design requirements with Center staff
• Set the scientific threshold for evidence supporting action
• Make evidence-informed recommendations with transparent and defensible scientific rationale
• Review and sign off on Public Guidance deliverables before release
• Ensure accuracy and rigor of practitioner guides, public education materials, and policy recommendations
• Partner with Center staff on cross-workstream questions
• Protect scientific conclusions and methodology from commercial, reputational, and funder pressure
• Flag independence or firewall concerns to the Executive Director
• Represent CBSAI science at major scientific, policy, industry, and public forums
• Build relationships with the scientific field, AI companies, and funders
• Directly supervise the Product Lead and help define growth of the Specifications workstream team
• Help establish hiring and team structures for future priority-area Scientific Leads
• Travel domestically and internationally for convenings, advisory meetings, and conferences
• Perform other duties as assigned

Scientific Director, Youth Safety – Wellbeing

• Carry scientific authority for the Youth Safety & Wellbeing priority area
• Chair and manage the Youth Safety & Wellbeing Scientific Advisory Group
• Set agendas, recruit and steward advisory members, and run a peer-level scientific forum
• Serve as CBSAI's credible scientific representative for the priority area
• Maintain a broad, current network across academia, clinical practice, and industry research
• Own the Specifications workstream for Youth Safety & Wellbeing
• Translate behavioral science and scientific evidence into engineer-ready product and design requirements
• Set the scientific bar for evidence-informed action in a rapidly evolving field
• Serve as scientific reviewer and sign-off authority for Public Guidance deliverables
• Partner with Center staff on cross-workstream questions and deliverables
• Protect scientific conclusions and methodology from commercial, reputational, and funder pressure
• Flag independence or firewall concerns to the Executive Director
• Represent CBSAI science at major convenings, funder and industry conversations, and public forums
• Build relationships with the scientific field, AI companies, and funders
• Directly supervise the Product Lead and help define growth of the Specifications workstream team
• Help establish the model for future priority-area Scientific Leads

Scientific Director, Youth Safety & Wellbeing

General Counsel

• Serve as primary in-house legal counsel for assigned revenue-generating activities of APA and APASI
• Partner with revenue-generating units from concept development through launch, operation, evaluation, and expansion
• Advise on business models, product development, commercialization, pricing, distribution, strategic alliances, sponsorships, and licensing arrangements
• Provide legal support for digital resources, product evaluation, and innovation communities
• Counsel APA Labs on technology evaluations, product testing, digital badge programs, startup engagement, and external relationships
• Identify legal and business risks, recommend practical solutions, and support operational decisions
• Develop scalable contract structures, templates, approval processes, and risk controls
• Advise on artificial intelligence, digital health, emerging technologies, and technology-related programs
• Draft and negotiate AI development, evaluation, testing, data access, research collaboration, technical implementation, and commercial partnership agreements
• Advise on intellectual property, data rights, confidentiality, cybersecurity, privacy, licensing, product claims, and technology-related risk
• Review proposed AI products, services, pilots, and partnerships
• Develop contractual safeguards for training data, model outputs, human oversight, bias, security, regulatory compliance, audit rights, indemnification, and liability
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and provide practical guidance
• Help develop governance standards and review processes for responsible AI initiatives
• Manage contract lifecycles, including drafting, reviewing, approving, compliance, renewals, amendments, terminations, and dispute resolution
• Draft and negotiate service, technology, license, strategic-partnership, sponsorship, data, confidentiality, and memorandum-of-understanding agreements
• Maintain contract templates and playbooks and coordinate reviews through APA’s contract management system
• Engage and manage outside counsel when specialized expertise is needed
• Advise on corporate, tax, intellectual property, antitrust, advertising, consumer-protection, and regulatory matters
• Prepare and deliver staff training on contracting, AI, intellectual property, and compliance
• Serve on internal committees and working groups and support OGC priorities

Associate General Counsel

• Serve as primary in-house legal counsel for assigned revenue-generating activities of APA and APASI
• Partner with BIGO and other revenue-generating units from concept development through launch, operation, evaluation, and expansion
• Advise on business models, product development, commercialization, pricing, distribution, strategic alliances, sponsorships, and licensing arrangements
• Provide legal support for revenue-related digital resources, product evaluation, and innovation communities
• Counsel APA Labs on technology evaluations, product testing, digital badge programs, startup engagement, and external relationships
• Identify legal and business risks, recommend practical solutions, and support operational decisions
• Develop scalable contract structures, templates, approval processes, and risk controls
• Provide legal counsel for artificial intelligence, digital health, emerging technologies, Publishing, and Practice initiatives
• Draft and negotiate agreements involving AI development, evaluation, testing, data access, research collaboration, technical implementation, and commercial partnerships
• Advise on intellectual property, data rights, confidentiality, cybersecurity, privacy, licensing, product claims, and technology-related risk
• Review proposed AI products, services, pilots, and partnerships
• Develop contractual safeguards for training data, model outputs, human oversight, bias, security, compliance, audit rights, indemnification, and liability
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and provide practical guidance
• Help develop governance standards and review processes for responsible AI initiatives
• Manage contract lifecycles, including drafting, reviewing, approving, compliance, renewals, amendments, terminations, and dispute resolution
• Draft and negotiate service, technology, licensing, strategic-partnership, sponsorship, data, confidentiality, and memorandum-of-understanding agreements
• Maintain contract templates and playbooks and coordinate reviews through APA’s contract management system
• Engage and manage outside counsel when specialized expertise is needed
• Advise on corporate, tax, intellectual property, antitrust, advertising, consumer-protection, and regulatory matters
• Prepare and deliver staff training on contracting, AI, intellectual property, and compliance
• Serve on internal committees and working groups and support OGC priorities