The company is hiring an Office and Events Manager to set up and run its new San Francisco office as it relocates from Berkeley. The role owns the office end to end: move-in, vendor and supplier selection, procurement, build-out, access management, and day-to-day operations. It also owns events from start to finish, including work happy hours, conference logistics, quarterly onsites, and external organizations hosting events in the space. The person in this role builds templates, checklists, budgets and documentation that make future events and everyday use of the space easier, and manages the tooling and policies the team relies on.

Responsibilities

Setting up and running our SF office. We're Berkeley-based and moving to a space in San Francisco. You'd be in charge of move-in, selection and procurement, build-out, and then running and improving the space day to day. You’d coordinate suppliers, vendors, food, access management, respond to office members, and
Owning events end to end. Coordinating work happy hours, conference logistics, our quarterly onsites, and being our space’s point of contact for external organizations hosting events in our space. You run logistics, speaker and attendee coordination, space, AV, food, and day-of execution across several concurrent planning tracks.
Build the systems that make events easier to throw in the future. Create templates, checklists, and budgets for your own use, as well as pleasant-to-interact-with documentation that helps our members be oriented to, and seamlessly use, our space.
Own tooling and everyday norms for the space. Choose and manage the event and office tools you run on, and keep the everyday policies people actually use (expenses, travel, calendar) as living documents.

Requirements

Have 3+ years across office management, events, operations, or executive support, ideally at a startup or high-performing nonprofit. Bonus for having owned both a physical space and an events program.
Run several events at different planning stages without losing threads.
Process-oriented while also being instance-oriented.
Care about attendee experience, the feel of the space, the small touches that make things feel handled.
Are service-minded and fine with some repetition, motivated by impact over glamour, and habitually asking whether this is the highest-value thing to be doing right now.
Are willing to work some flexible hours when we host events.
Care about the mission. You think AI could reshape the coming decade and want to help it go safely, with a realistic read on both the upside and the risks.

Benefits

Bay Area, in-person. This role's base salary range is $120,000 - $160,000 USD per year. We may be open to paying exceptional and/or highly experienced employees more than this. We also provide full benefits, including healthcare, dental, vision, 401k match, and more.