Generalist – Operations

🕒 July 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $95k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Kairos

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

🤝 Non-profit

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📚 Education

Non-profit • Artificial Intelligence • Education

Kairos is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit that accelerates talent into AI safety and policy fields by running scalable programs that mentor, fund, and train researchers and organizers. Its core offerings include SPAR, a large part-time remote research fellowship focused on risks from advanced AI with work accepted at conferences like ICML and NeurIPS; Pathfinder, which funds and mentors university AI safety and policy student groups; Generator, an in-person residency to build operational capacity for the AI safety ecosystem; and intensive residential workshops on AI safety and biosecurity. Kairos emphasizes rapid, scalable interventions to grow researchers, policymakers, and skilled operators, and reports impact metrics such as 1,200+ people supported, 70+ publications, and 160+ organizers supported. The organization is funded by Coefficient Giving and operates internationally with remote and in-person programs.

📋 Description

• Build systems and automations to eliminate repetitive manual operational work • Pay vendors and contractors • Supervise accountants • Support bookkeeping and the annual audit • Handle payroll, benefits, onboarding, and offboarding logistics • Help maintain compliance • Process grants across Pathfinder and other programs • Make payments to individuals and organizations • Manage expense processing • Support Pathfinder groups • Assist with program operations and logistics • Triage inboxes and solve operational problems • Support occasional program-operations crunches • Collaborate with AI safety researchers, policy professionals, funders, organizers, and internal teams

🎯 Requirements

• Smart, agentic, and able to figure things out • Great at automation and tooling • Eager to help and able to be assertive • Organized and on top of things • Strong writer and communicator • Mission-aligned with AI safety • Some experience in finance, accounting, HR, nonprofit compliance, event planning, business operations, or nonprofit administration is valued but not required • Strong automation and AI-tooling skills valued • Context on AI safety and the broader ecosystem valued • Comfortable operating in the AI safety ecosystem and its culture • Ability to attend meetings in the ET time zone preferred • Must be able to start within a couple of months of applying in general • Visa sponsorship may be available for the US depending on circumstances, especially O-1A visas

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Highly competitive health insurance • Dental and vision coverage • Generous vacation policy • Professional development budget • Team retreats three times a year • Food, lunches, and office expenses covered when working from an AI safety office in San Francisco, Berkeley, London, or Boston • Paid take-home assignment • Paid work trial • Potential additional compensation for exceptional candidates • $5,000 referral bonus if a referred candidate is hired and completes 6 months

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