Goodfire

BusinessOperationsManager

$175–300k San Francisco, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Business Operations Manager at Goodfire. Skills: Business operations, Process management, Cross-functional coordination. Own operational machinery. Own operational problem from 0 to 1”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Turn anything into a solved problem

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4-6+ years operations experience, Generalist role at early-stage startup, Technical background strongly preferred, CS degree or engineering experience, Demonstrated fluency in technical environments

Nice to Have

Direct expertise in machine learning, Direct expertise in interpretability

What You'll Do.

Own operational machinery

Own operational problem from 0 to 1

Develop working understanding of ML/interpretability

Manage customer contracts

Manage recruiting initiatives

Manage immigration logistics

Negotiate vendor contracts

Ensure near-zero administrative overhead

Deliver on assigned tasks

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Translate between technical teams; Translate between non-technical teams

Communication Scope

Organizational skills

Full Job Description

About Goodfire Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. 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. Scaling has proven powerful, but today's approach is fundamentally limited: we can't meaningfully understand, debug, or shape what models learn. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now. We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software. Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world’s top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others. About the role 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 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. If you don’t have direct expertise in machine learning or interpretability you’ll be expected to develop a working understanding quickly. 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 broad

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