Goodfire

Business Operations Manager

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specified$175k-$300kDetected 149 days ago

Machine LearningNegotiationLogisticsResearchCommunicationAdaptability

About the role

You'll need a strong technical background to deeply immerse yourself in our business and the generalist adaptability to pick up anything and turn it into a solved problem.
Your work will split between recurring tasks that keep the business running (customer contracts, recruiting initiatives, immigration logistics, and vendor negotiation) and strategic projects that push the company forward.
You will ensure there is near-zero administrative overhead for the broader team, even if this requires thankless hours of invisible work on your end.

Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems.
We're hiring a Business Operations Manager to own the operational machinery at Goodfire.
This is a hands-on role where you will be expected to own any operational problem from 0 to 1.
You'll be staffed against whatever matters most and be expected to deliver.

You know what breaks when companies grow fast and how to pre-empt issues.
You can move extremely quickly without letting anything slip.
You can translate between technical and non-technical teams effortlessly.
4-6+ years of experience in operations, business operations, or a generalist role at an early-stage startup.

Technical background strongly preferred.
CS degree, engineering experience, or demonstrated fluency from working in technical environments.

This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
If you don't have direct expertise in machine learning or interpretability you'll be expected to develop a working understanding quickly.

Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI-not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building.

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