Head of People

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $145k - $241k / year

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👥 People Operations

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Epoch AI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

Epoch AI is a research and data organization that tracks and analyzes trends in artificial intelligence, maintaining open databases of AI models, data centers, hardware performance, chip sales, and benchmarking results. It publishes papers, reports, newsletters, podcasts, and data insights, and offers custom research and advisory services to policymakers, institutions, and companies to inform decisions about AI development, infrastructure, and governance.

📋 Description

• Own the hiring system. • Improve how the hiring processes work: oversee retrospectives after each round, address recurring mistakes, restructure or close rounds that aren't converging, and flag when our compensation structure isn't competitive. • Support headcount planning with the COO. • Help turn the org’s growth plan into a hiring plan: which roles open when, in what order, what each round realistically takes. Flag early when the plan and reality diverge, for example when a round is going to slip a quarter and dependent hires need resequencing. • Own the candidate experience. • Set the standard for how Epoch presents itself to the talent market — job descriptions, careers page, outreach, rejections — and ensure every candidate, hired or not, leaves with a positive impression of Epoch. • Own the hiring manager experience. • Make it easy, quick, and frictionless for researchers, engineers, and other senior staff to launch and run hiring rounds. Protect their time. • Report on the funnel. • Own the metrics that tell us whether hiring is working — time-to-hire, source-of-hire, offer-accept rate — and translate them into action, surfacing negative results early, like when hires from a round keep leaving and the role needs a different JD. • Be a trusted advisor to leadership. • Advise on org design, leveling, and sensitive personnel decisions, handled with discretion and empathy. • Help our talent develop once they're inside. • Work with the COO and managers on how we develop people after they join: performance review cycles, manager support and materials, and whatever staff need to keep growing at Epoch. • Own the onboarding system. • Spot weaknesses, drive improvements, and anticipate what onboarding needs to look like at twice our size. • Own benefits, payroll, and our HR providers. • Make sure staff concerns are resolved quickly, and own the provider strategy: what we use, on what terms, and when to switch. • Own compliance, contracts, and visas. • Own employment compliance across the jurisdictions where we employ staff, review contract templates and terms, and take the visa sponsorship escalations, flagging risk decisions to the COO. • Own the handbook and internal policies. • Set the standard for what makes the handbook useful to staff, and own the policies in it. • Shape organizational culture as we scale. • Steward the practices, rituals, and feedback processes that keep Epoch a place where talented people do their best work. • Oversee the events function. • Set the goals our events serve and shape the calendar around them: which events earn their place, where to invest more, and when to try new formats as Epoch's needs change. • Scale the function with the org. • As the events calendar grows, add contractors or headcount as needed, and make sure repeatable processes make each event easier than the last. • Manage the People team.

🎯 Requirements

• Has 7+ years of operations leadership experience including across recruiting and people operations. • Has scaled a people or recruiting function through significant headcount growth. • Has experience managing people, building high performance teams, and developing both individual contributors and managers. • Has owned in-house searches end-to-end, ideally for technical research or academic roles, and has filled hard roles where the best candidates weren’t applying and had to be recruited. • Has experience building at least some of: hiring infrastructure, onboarding processes, performance management systems, or international employment via PEO/EOR. • Is process-minded, with a bias toward simple solutions over heavy processes, and has built systems that scale. • Is relentlessly resourceful, energized by building functions from near-zero, calm under pressure, and impatient when a project could be moving forward but isn’t. • Is comfortable with funnel data and honest reporting on what’s working. • Has strong judgment on sensitive personnel matters, with a default toward direct, candid, and respectful communication. • Is a natural relationship builder who can pitch Epoch’s mission compellingly to candidates and build trust with staff and leadership. • Is familiar with the AI research or nonprofit ecosystem, and motivated by Epoch’s work. • **Nice to have:** experience with Lever or a similar ATS; experience running or overseeing events; experience with employment visa processes; experience building culture in a remote/hybrid, multi-country organization; an existing network in the AI safety, AI policy, or technical AI community.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance program including supplemental health benefits, life insurance, and a 3% 401K match. • Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific annual limit, with 30 days PTO per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and 4 months paid parental leave for permanent staff with at least 12 months of tenure (prorated parental leave if less than 12 months). • A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities, including unlimited spending on AI tools, subject to regulations and manager approval. • Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences. • Full access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more.