About Constellation
Constellation is an independent research center that brings together people throughout the AI safety ecosystem to accelerate insight research and talent through better cooperation. Unlike a conference or summit Constellation operates continuously in the form of a physical workspace as well as conferencestyle talks workshops and training bootcamps. Continuous operation allows for relationships and conversations to develop over time meaningfully fostering trust collaboration and shared insight. It also makes Constellation a natural fieldbuilding hub by rapidly inspiring orienting and connecting people who are newer to the field.
Based in Berkeley CA our shared workspace hosts over 100 people per week across dozens of AI safety organizations in nonprofits academia industry and government. Hundreds of other researchers spend time at Constellation for shorter visits each year. We believe this is the strongest and highestoutput network of AI safety researchers in the world; dozens of participants in past Constellation programs have gone on to safetyfocused roles at companies such as METR Redwood Research Anthropic Google DeepMind OpenAI and the US and UK Safety Institutes.
About the Role
Were seeking a talented and enthusiastic Site Operations Lead to maintain and improve our beautiful collaborative workspace.
As our Site Operations Lead youll be responsible for keeping Constellations physical space running smoothly and comfortably. Our collaborative workspace spans five floors of an office building in downtown Berkeley. While we are a small team we host a large number of research orgs individual members and visitors.
The ideal candidate has significant professional experience managing highquality facilities in a fastpaced and dynamic work environment. (The vibe and pace is much closer to a growing startup than a traditional nonprofit.
In this role youll work closely with both our Operations and Programs teams. Youll also get to interact with and support many of the worlds top AI safety experts.
This is an inperson fulltime position. This role requires being onsite from 8:30am5pm on weekdays. Occasional work is required on evenings and weekends for handling urgent issues.
Responsibilities
Since were a growing team your exact responsibilities will depend on your skills and interests. They are likely to include:
Hiring and managing vendors to maintain and improve our offices
Managing our amazing team of porters who handle daytoday tasks like restocking snacks clearing dishes etc.
Maintaining a good working relationship with building management and ensuring resolution of facilities issues requiring their attention
Identifying and managing improvements to offices meeting rooms or social areas
Troubleshooting and managing vendors to solve issues or concerns as they arise
Responding to facilities support requests from our researchers
Overseeing design and construction of new spaces
Researching and purchasing furniture equipment and decor
Monitoring desk office room and meeting utilization
Skills & Experience
Experience managing facilities or site operations for a large office space
Experience managing relationships with external vendors and partners
Comfortable working in a fastmoving environment
Able to reliably track manage and prioritize a high volume of tasks threads and deadlines
Experience balancing urgent daytoday requests with longerterm initiatives
Excellent at tracking project progress and hitting deadlines
Able to gracefully set and maintain clear expectationsCan drive partially scoped projects to the finish line
Enjoy handson operations work
Clear concise written communication
Comfortable communicating with endusers and providing a good customer experience
Experience using Slack Asana and/or CRM tools (preferred not required)
You might be a good fit for this role if you:
Care about AI safety and improving researcher productivity
Enjoy working in a fastpaced office environment
Can effectively prioritize and juggle a variety of competing requests
Care a lot about improving the user/customer experience
Like taking responsibility for and owning your portfolio of work
This is a full time onsite role. Our Berkeley office is a few steps from the nearest BART (metro) and bus stop. Onsite parking is also available.
We would like the candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer.
The ideal candidate for this role will have some combination of the skills and experiences described above. If you are not sure if you are qualified we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. Beyond the qualifications outlined our priority is building a team that will help humanity safely navigate the development of transformative AI. If you would be excited to do this work wed love to consider you.
We value diversity in all respects and base our hiring decisions on the needs of the organization and individual qualifications. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age or disability.