Chief Operating Officer
Non-profit AI safety research and community-building lab that researches frontier-AI safety and runs remote research sprints and fellowships.
Funding history
About Apart Research
Apart Research conducts AI safety research, including work on frontier-model manipulation and safety evaluations, and develops researchers through open research sprints and fellowship programs.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead end-to-end operations, including compliance, finance, HR, recruiting, vendors, and internal systems. You will build and manage an operations team, lead fiscal sponsorship, design scalable hiring processes, oversee a US and European entity structure, and coordinate external accounting, payroll, legal, insurance, and EOR providers.
Requirements
- Experience scaling an organization
- Experience managing a 501(c)(3) entity and ensuring compliance
- Experience in a mission-driven research organization or fast-paced technical environment
- Experience establishing organizational processes, compliance frameworks, and operational systems
- Knowledge of Ramp and Deel
- Knowledge of Notion, Slack, Discord, Google Workspace, and AI tools
Responsibilities
- Hire and manage operations generalists
- Lead fiscal sponsorship for incubated projects
- Own compliance, finance, HR, recruiting, vendors, and internal systems
- Scale operations and organizational capacity
- Own hiring process design, rubrics, offer decisions, and recruiting vendors
- Build and lead a dedicated operations team
- Manage the multi-entity organizational structure
- Liaise with external accounting, payroll, EOR, legal, and insurance providers
Hiring Process
Initial application (CV and short questions) → screening call → paid work test and interview → meet-the-team call → paid remote/in-person work trial and reference checks → offer