Arc Institute Benefits Overview

Coordinates core People Operations activities, including employee onboarding and offboarding, HRIS record maintenance, benefits and payroll support, immigration casework, employee inquiries, and people-program logistics. Serves as a key contact for employees and managers while partnering with IT, Facilities, Accounting, Payroll, Benefits, and outside immigration counsel. The role is fully onsite in Palo Alto and emphasizes accurate, service-oriented, adaptable HR support.

Leads Arc Institute’s brand, communications, and editorial strategy, unifying storytelling across media, web, publications, internal communications, and scientific announcements. Partners with founders and researchers to translate complex technical work into clear, compelling narratives; manages communications and scientific publications teams; establishes creative standards, review systems, media relationships, and effectiveness metrics. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on editorial execution in a rapidly scaling scientific organization.

Own support and operations for Arc’s laboratory information management system. Responsibilities include managing requests, making schema changes, maintaining data validation checks, supporting experiment templates and command-line tools, training scientists, documenting workflows, and automating recurring tasks. The role also includes improving permissions, building tools to make laboratory metadata queryable, debugging systems, and eventually owning part of the lab platform from design through support.