Resolution Think

Operations Staff

Berkeley, California · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago

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About the role

ABOUT RESOLUTION Resolution does research on how to align artificial superintelligence (ASI).
ASI may be developed in the next few years, but it is unclear whether alignment is on track to be ready in the same timeframe.
We aim at higher a priori confidence in aligned outcomes by pursuing a portfolio of theory and empirics bets, any one of which - if it succeeds - would meaningfully advance the field.

Partner with Research Program Leads on team strategy. Define goals, build and structure teams, decide what to prioritize.
Thought partner. Serve as a trusted advisor, holding strategic views on research, organisational design, and policy, pushing back on the Chief Scientist when you disagree.
Design new systems and approaches. Build an informed view on what separates good hiring from great, and design the systems, sourcing strategies, and assessments.
Build and run our research review processes: seminars, lightning talks, leadership review, and publication approval.
Maintain relationships with frontier companies, external research collaborators, and potential hires.
Design, pitch and run new projects like grantmaking, a fellowship, or visiting researcher program.
As you build context, you'll become one of the most trusted staff in the organization, and play a role in most major decisions.
You'd help onboard them and build the structure they need - including hiring additional Chiefs of Staff or Executive Assistants as needed - and grow your own remit alongside the team.
We're secure from external attacks or fraud because of well-designed financial systems, policies, and controls.
Then, you'll build out a finance function fit for the intelligence explosion:

Operational track record.
You have a history of processes, projects, or programs which work much better because of you.
Entrepreneurial mindset.
You like to move quickly towards ambitious, novel goals.
You notice problems outside your remit and fix them anyway.
You're comfortable operating without a perfect playbook and can adapt when plans change.
Clear, concise communication.
You distill complex ideas verbally and in writing, whether that's in a Slack message, decision memo, or team meeting.

Design and implement internal policies like our salary policy, benefits, and performance review.
We're compliant with our obligations to grantmakers and jurisdictions we operate in. That includes preparing for and conducting annual audits, and preparing budgets for fundraising.

Develop and implement systems to run visas, payroll, benefits, and onboarding.
Run all-hands meetings, retreats, and socials that keep a fast-growing team kind, thoughtful, and impact-motivated.

Resolution does research on how to align artificial superintelligence (ASI).
We invest heavily in research automation to accelerate progress, and we believe that stronger alignment theory unlocks higher automation: more principled approaches give us better filters for which directions of automated research are promising.
Resolution was founded in May 2026 by researchers from UK AISI's Alignment Team, who ran the £30m Alignment Project https://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/, and Timaeus https://timaeus.co/, who pioneered applying singular learning theory to alignment.
We're backed by $160M initial funding.
For more information, see our announcement http://resolution.org/launch.
Humanity likely has a few years left to solve alignment, and Resolution has just been founded.
We're scaling from scratch to 60+ staff in six months, working across multiple research areas and countries.
To pull that off, we're building an operations team that's every bit as strong as our research team - people who treat operations as a craft and want to do the best work of their careers.
Joining now is a unique opportunity to set Resolution's systems, culture, and strategy.
Scaling an alignment organization in the foothills of an intelligence explosion creates novel problems.

This listing is sourced directly from Resolution Think's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.