The Operations Generalist will support capacity planning, office space allocation, resource optimization, process improvement, and workflow automation for an AI safety research center. Responsibilities include forecasting space needs, resolving resource conflicts, managing stakeholder requests, improving operational systems, and leading additional projects across operations and programming. The role requires prioritizing numerous tasks, synthesizing complex information, communicating decisions effectively, and working onsite with occasional evening and weekend responsibilities.
About Constellation
How to Apply
Constellation is an independent research center that brings together people throughout the AI safety ecosystem to accelerate insight, research, and talent through better cooperation. Unlike a conference or summit, Constellation operates continuously, in the form of a physical workspace as well as conference-style talks, workshops, and training bootcamps. Continuous operation allows for relationships and conversations to develop over time, meaningfully fostering trust, collaboration, and shared insight. It also makes Constellation a natural field-building hub by rapidly inspiring, orienting, and connecting people who are newer to the field.
Based in Berkeley, CA, our shared workspace hosts over 300 people per week across dozens of AI safety organizations in nonprofits, academia, industry, and government. Hundreds of other researchers spend time at Constellation for shorter visits each year. We believe this is the strongest and highest-output network of AI safety researchers in the world; dozens of participants in past Constellation programs have gone on to safety-focused roles at companies such as METR, Redwood Research, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and the US and UK Safety Institutes.
About the Role
We’re seeking an Operations Generalist to increase our team’s capacity and scale up our impact. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will be responsible for capacity planning, office space allocation, and a flexible portfolio of operations projects to support and enable our AI safety research center and programming.
The exact scope of responsibilities will depend on your experience and areas of expertise. It will include some combination of: resource allocation, project management, process design and optimization, workflow automation, hiring, and people management.
The ideal candidate has significant professional experience in 1-2 of these domains in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment. (Constellation’s vibe and pace is much closer to a growing startup than a traditional nonprofit.) In this cross-functional role, you’ll work closely with our various Operations and Programs teams. You’ll also get to interact with and support many of the world’s top AI safety experts.
This is an in-person, full-time position. This role requires being onsite from approximately 9am-5pm on weekdays. Periodic work is required on evenings and weekends, e.g. when coordinating large projects or handling urgent issues.
Core responsibilities
- Capacity Planning
- Create and maintain forecasts of future space needs
- Identify and solve resource crunches (e.g. from overlapping programs)
- Develop scenarios to propose solutions
- Engage stakeholders to align on organizational priorities
- Office Space Allocation
- Develop good relationships with key stakeholders at each org we host
- Proactively collect requirements on future needs
- Identify opportunities for resource optimization (e.g. office swaps)
- Triage inbound requests for space
- Communicate decisions thoughtfully to external stakeholders
- Process Improvement
- Identify improvements to current capacity planning and space assignment processes
- Build/implement better tools to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, or support other teams
- Work closely with Data & Systems Lead to leverage existing data for improved accuracy or automation
In addition to these core responsibilities, you’ll own other operational domains or projects over time. The specific projects will be selected in collaboration with your manager based on your skills and interests.
Skills & Experience
- Experience building and maintaining scalable systems and processes at a fast-growing organization
- Able to reliably track, manage, and prioritize a high volume of tasks, threads, and deadlines
- Experience balancing urgent requests with ongoing responsibilities and longer-term initiatives
- Skilled at synthesizing complex and disjointed data points into concrete, cohesive scenarios
- Strong social skills and emotional intelligence; able to be friendly and professional with a wide range of external stakeholders, including executives
- Able to gracefully set clear expectations and deliver difficult news
- Clear, concise written communication with good grammar.
You might be a good fit for this role if you:
- Care about AI safety and improving researcher productivity
- Love solving optimization and spatial problems, like Tetris or jigsaw puzzles
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced office environment
- Can effectively prioritize and juggle a variety of competing requests
- Have a service mindset and care about delivering a high-quality user experience
- Like taking responsibility for and owning your portfolio of work
The base pay range for this role is $100,000 – $158,000 per year.
Our benefits are hard to beat! They include:
- Healthy lunches and dinners catered by our amazing kitchen team
- Unlimited snacks & drinks
- Generous vacation policy
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employer-paid commuter benefits
- High-quality health, dental, and vision insurance
- Friendly and supportive team
- Regular interaction with AI safety researchers and thought leaders
This is a full time, on-site role. Our Berkeley office is a few steps from the nearest BART (metro) and bus stop. On-site parking is also available.
The ideal candidate for this role will have some combination of the skills and experiences described above. If you are not sure if you are qualified, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. Beyond the qualifications outlined, our priority is building a team that will help humanity safely navigate the development of transformative AI. If you would be excited to do this work, we’d love to consider you.
We value diversity in all respects and base our hiring decisions on the needs of the organization and individual qualifications. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age or disability.
Submit your resume and answer the application questions. We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, including to detect whether candidates have used AI models in drafting their application. Final hiring decisions are always made by a human in our team.
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