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About the Role

We are seeking a People Operations Manager to build and own our people processes and systems from end to end, designing, fixing, and establishing a foundation that supports significant growth. This individual-contributor role focuses on creating scalable systems rather than managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Own the full people-ops lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding through offboarding, building scalable systems and documentation.
• Set up and maintain HRIS, payroll, benefits administration, and compliance recordkeeping infrastructure.
• Establish internal policy and compliance foundation, employee handbook, leave and accommodations processes, and workplace safety and L&D programs.
• Build performance and development framework, including review cycles, documentation, and manager support.
• Develop compensation best practices, including pay transparency compliance and a structured comp framework.
• Act as the point person for employee relations and HR compliance questions.
• Partner with adjacent Ops functions (Finance, IT, general Operations) to ensure clean workflow integration.
• Identify opportunities to scale and automate people-ops systems and workflows, including through AI tools.
• Serve as a champion and steward of internal team culture, establishing and improving practices, traditions, and rituals.
• Prioritize effectively, identifying immediate needs versus those that can wait for more headcount.

Requirements

• Prior experience building or substantially improving, and then leading, people operations processes and systems at a scaling organization.
• Demonstrated ability to design systems from scratch.
• Strong understanding of core HR/people-ops fundamentals across the full lifecycle.
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor with high autonomy.
• Excellent judgment on prioritization.
• Track record of scaling and automating people-ops workflows, ideally including use of AI tools.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Ability to move at the pace of a fast-scaling, well-funded, early-stage company.
• Genuine interest in AI safety and CAIS's mission.

Skills

• HRIS tools (Rippling, Gusto, or similar)
• AI tools for process automation

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• In-office
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Individual contributor
• Startup experience at early stage (50-150 person) companies

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000 - $185,000 base

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401K plan + 4% matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• Annual Professional Development Stipend
• Access to some of the top talent working on technical and conceptual research in AI safety

About the Company

• The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a leading research and advocacy organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks from AI.
• Past achievements include releasing the most widely used measure of AI capabilities, running a large compute cluster for AI safety research, and publishing a global statement on AI Risk signed by prominent AI leaders.

Equal Opportunity

• The Center for AI Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• In alignment with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.
• We value diversity and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.