About the Role
The Operations Manager at Alignment Research Center (ARC) manages all of the day-to-day operations for ARC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with 4-6 research staff. Their scope of responsibilities include HR, recruitment management, finance, governance operations, and other administrative support as needed.
The Operations Manager will be directly responsible for keeping operations running smoothly, ensuring the organization has low-overhead and bureaucracy for researchers, and manages its risk appropriately. They will also work to improve the operations as needed, keeping an eye out for opportunities to improve systems and make the organization run more efficiently. They will report to Jacob Hilton.
Key Details
Location: Preferred in-person in Berkeley, CA in our beautiful shared workspace, but also accepting remote applicants in the US, with up to 4 weeks of travel required annually to the Bay Area.
Hours & Salary: 2-3 days per week, prorated from $100k-$150k FTE (so $60,000-$90,000 annually for 3 days per week). If you think you are an excellent fit and can only do full-time, talk to us about options.
About Alignment Research Center
The Alignment Research Center is a non-profit research organization whose mission is to align future machine learning systems with human interests. Our current focus is developing an alignment strategy that could be adopted in industry today while scaling gracefully to future ML systems. We previously incubated an evaluations team, which has independently spun out into METR.
The Operations Manager will oversee all aspects of ops at ARC, making sure everything is running smoothly, and staying on top of compliance and legal matters. They’ll be directly responsible for the following areas: