Business Operations Manager

About this role

About Us
FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. Our mission is to facilitate breakthrough AI safety research, advance global understanding of AI risks and solutions, and foster a coordinated global response.


Since our founding in July 2022, we've grown to 40+ staff, producing 40+ influential academic papers, and establishing leading AI Safety events. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times, Nature News and MIT Technology Review. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI and conduct independent testing for governments including the EU AI Office. Additionally, we help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing research roadmaps with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley; and supporting the community through targeted grants.


About The Role
We're hiring a Business Operations Manager to join FAR.AI’s BizOps team as the right hand to our Head of Business Operations.


You’ll report to the Head of Business Operations and work closely with peers across Finance, People Operations, and Programs. BizOps is the connective tissue of FAR.AI – we design and maintain the systems that enable functional teams to focus on delivery. We own the problems that cut across the organization, fill gaps where there's no clear owner, and act as accelerants when teams need operational support to move faster.


This role comes with real ownership and autonomy at a key moment in our growth. As the BizOps Manager at FAR.AI, you'll help shape how we operate and scale. You will be responsible for defining problems, developing solutions, and driving these solutions to completion, maintaining ownership over the long term. While you'll start as an individual contributor, there's room t...