Kairos is hiring a Head of Operations/Founding Generalist

By Agustín Covarrubias 🔸, Topaz @ 2025-03-12T20:58 (+59)

Summary

Are you looking for an impactful role in AI safety? Look no further! 

Kairos is a recently founded AI safety fieldbuilding organization with the mission of mitigating the risks from advanced AI by helping fill talent gaps and needs within the field. Our programs, such as SPAR, currently support hundreds of people going into AI safety each year, and we’re looking to scale up as we grow our programs and start new ones. 

We’re looking for a skilled generalist or operations professional to help grow our organization as our third employee. This role would have a salary of $80,000 to $130,000 plus benefits, and we think this is a unique opportunity to get involved in multiple high-impact AI safety projects and help us build our org from the ground up.

 

Apply now!

 

About Kairos

Kairos manages a portfolio of different AI safety fieldbuilding projects, including:

Kairos is built as an agile organization that can adjust to the field’s changing needs. We anticipate we’ll continue to take on new fieldbuilding projects in the future. We're small (you'll be employee #3!), which means you'll have an outsized impact and the chance to shape how we grow.

About the role

We’re looking for either a Head of Operations or a Founding Generalist to play a key role in planning and executing our portfolio of projects across group support and research programs.

In this role, you’ll be a key player in helping scale Kairos’s programs. Your responsibilities will span program management, participant recruitment and communications, developing systems to make our programs more efficient and, potentially, managing people as we grow. As a founding team member in a small, dynamic organization, you'll have significant ownership over your work and the opportunity to shape Kairos's future direction.

The distinction between Head of Operations and Founding Generalist would mostly come down to seniority in operations experience, as well as appetite for handling a broad set of strategy and planning tasks. Being the third employee in the organization, we expect that whoever takes the role will need to be ready to wear many different hats alongside the rest of the team. As a result, we're open to tailoring this role to the right candidate's interests and aptitudes.

What you'll do

About you

An ideal candidate will have most or all of the following characteristics: 

While not required, we prefer candidates who also have:

Why work with us?

Compensation and benefits

The base compensation for this position will vary between $80,000 and $130,000 (USD) with a 10% 401k or an equivalent 10% unconditional pension contribution. The exact salary will depend on the candidate’s seniority level and, in the case of other countries, a potential cost of living adjustment. 

Our benefits include: flexible working hours, competitive health insurance, dental/vision insurance, a generous vacation policy, and a generous professional development budget.

Logistics

Application process

Our culture

Kairos is a new but dynamic nonprofit driven by a strong mission to reduce existential risks from AI. We operate with a scout mindset—pursuing truth over comfort and embracing uncertainty. Our team values purpose over ego, alliance over competition, and maintaining the agility needed to address the urgent challenges posed by advanced AI.

We also like to have fun together. While working on AI safety can sometimes be stressful, we are really passionate and energized by the work we do and believe meaningful work should also be enjoyable. We support each other's wellbeing, celebrate small wins, and maintain a healthy sense of humor. 

If you think you might be a good fit for the role but don’t meet all the qualifications, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway! We care more about you having the right mindset rather than perfectly meeting every requirement.

Additional information

While this role is ideally full-time, we’re open to potential part-time arrangements for particularly good candidates.

We’re also willing to negotiate on certain points for especially promising applicants. This includes the role title or the compensation package.

Kairos is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for this role and will not be discriminated against.


jessica_mccurdy🔸 @ 2025-03-14T01:08 (+12)

Agus is one of my favorite people I have ever worked with! Would recommend :)