Business Operations Manager

Business Operations Manager 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 https://www.far.ai/about/team, producing 40+ influential academic papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FVJ24k8AAAAJ, and establishing leading AI Safety events https://far.ai/events/. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/175e5314-a7f7-4741-a786-273219f433a1, Nature News https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7 and MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/28/905615/reinforcement-learning-adversarial-attack-gaming-ai-deepmind-alphazero-selfdriving-cars/. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI and conduct independent testing for governments including the EU AI Office https://www.far.ai/news/far-ai-selected-to-lead-eu-ai-act-cbrn-risk-consortium. Additionally, we help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06624 research https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20702 roadmaps https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396910034_Open_Technical_Problems_in_Open-Weight_AI_Model_Risk_Management with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs https://www.far.ai/programs/far-labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley; and supporting the community through targeted grants https://www.far.ai/programs/grantmaking. 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 to grow; whether that's into people management, expanded scope, or deeper specialization as the BizOps function evolves. WHAT YOU'LL DO No two weeks look the same. You'll shape your own priorities across a mix of core operational systems that need steady ownership and new organizational needs - learning new domains, solving varied problems, and staying close to the work that keeps FAR.AI running. The balance will shift depending on what's most pressing, but your work will encompass: Systems & Cross-team Coordination - Design and maintain cross-team coordination systems: project trackers, operational dashboards and workflow tools that support visibility, and decision making across FAR.AI. - Manage FAR.AI’s operational requests pipeline – triaging cross-team support needs, assessing resource implications, and ensuring requests are scoped, prioritized, and resolved efficiently. - Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that require alignment across multiple teams, managing dependencies, timelines, and stakeholder communication. - Own operational projects end-to-end, from scoping through implementation (e.g. building a new grant tracking system, or re-designing onboarding workflows with team leads), or driving specific pieces of larger initiatives. - Evaluate, optimize, and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)