Operations Generalist

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 conference‑style 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 field‑building hub by rapidly inspiring, orienting, and connecting people who are newer to the field.

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 conference‑style 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 field‑building hub by rapidly inspiring, orienting, and connecting people who are newer to the field.

Based in Berkeley, CA, our shared workspace hosts over 300 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 highest‑output network of AI safety researchers in the world; dozens of participants in past Constellation programs have gone on to safety‑focused roles at companies such as METR, Redwood Research, Anthropic, Google Deep Mind, OpenAI, and the US and UK Safety Institutes.

We’re seeking an Operations Generalist to increase our team’s capacity and scale up our impact. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will be responsible for capacity planning, office space allocation, and a flexible portfolio of operations projects to support and enable our AI safety research center and programming.

The exact scope of responsibilities will depend on your experience and areas of expertise. It will include some combination of: resource allocation, project management, process design and optimization, workflow automation, hiring, and people management.

The ideal candidate has significant professional experience in 1-2 of these domains in a fast‑paced and dynamic work environment. (Constellation’s vibe and pace is much closer to a growing startup than a traditional nonprofit.) In this cross‑functional role, you’ll work closely with our various Operations and Programs teams. You’ll also get to interact with and support many of the world’s top AI safety experts.

This is an in‑person, full‑time position. This role requires being onsite from approximately 9am‑5pm on weekdays. Periodic work is required on evenings and weekends, e.g. when coordinating large projects or handling urgent issues.

• Capacity Planning
  • Create and maintain forecasts of future space needs
  • Identify and solve resource crunches (e.g. from overlapping programs)
  • Develop scenarios to propose solutions
  • Engage stakeholders to align on organizational priorities
• Office Space Allocation
  • Develop good relationships with key stakeholders at each org we host
  • Proactively collect requirements on future needs
  • Identify opportunities for resource optimization (e.g. office swaps)
  • Triage inbound requests for space
  • Communicate decisions thoughtfully to external stakeholders
• Process Improvement
  • Identify improvements to current capacity…