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About the Role
This is a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco for a People Operations leader who has built the People & Culture function from the ground up at a scaling organization. You will have ownership of people processes and systems from end to end, designing, fixing, and building a durable foundation to support significant growth. This individual-contributor role focuses on designing scalable systems rather than managing a team.
Responsibilities
- Own the full people-ops lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding through off-boarding, 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 the 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, escalating as needed.
- Partner across 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 exceptionally, 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, ideally a startup or fast-growing nonprofit.
- 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; able to turn ambiguous questions into clear systems, policy, and documentation.
- Able 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
- On-site
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Individual contributor
Salary/Compensations
- $160,000 - $200,000 annually
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 top talent in AI safety research
- Referral Program ($1,500 bonus)
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 figures.
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.