Jobs at The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)

The People Operations Manager will advise employees, managers, and leaders across the employee lifecycle; manage policies, onboarding, performance, wellbeing, learning, payroll, HRIS administration, and employee data. The role includes line-managing a People Operations Associate, ensuring UK employment law and GDPR compliance, improving workflows and people analytics, supporting inclusion initiatives, and managing learning and development processes.

Lead ARIA’s Scaling Inference Lab, an AI hardware testbed building deployable rack-scale systems. Own programme delivery, operating model, governance, funding strategy, partnerships and long-term sustainability. Represent ARIA in governance forums, assess portfolio progress and risks, guide evidence-based decisions, and build relationships across academia, industry, government, funders and the compute ecosystem. The role requires technical breadth across AI infrastructure, strong programme leadership, senior stakeholder management, and regular UK travel.