Apollo Research is an AI safety organisation that works on the detection of scheming (e.g. building evaluations), the science of scheming (e.g. model organisms), and scheming mitigations (e.g. anti-scheming, and control). We closely work with multiple frontier AI companies. At Apollo, we aim for a culture that emphasizes truth-seeking, being goal-oriented, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and being friendly and helpful. If you’re interested in more details about what it’s like working at Apollo, you can find more information here.
We're a team of ~35 in London/Europe, starting a new office in San Francisco and we're growing fast.
What this role covers
As we grow, I'm building out the People Ops function and looking for someone to join starting Q3 2026.
This is a generalist role with a focus on People Ops: hiring, HR systems and overall process improvement. Particularly, you'd have autonomy to shape our talent outreach strategy through e.g. events, hackathons, conferences and our employer branding. This will extend into creating the best onboarding experience. There is an ambitious target to grow the team by at least 50% and this role will be a key driver of that.
As a lean team, there also a ambitious AI enablement thread where we think hard about how to use tools and systems well. You'll be expected to use AI to move faster and reduce manual overhead.
This role will involve a lot of relationship building, a genuine care and appreciation for candidates and their experience. You'll be interacting and closely supporting a technical workforce of researchers and engineers.
Who I'm looking for
2+ years of experience in HR, recruiting, operations, or adjacent work or someone earlier in their career who has run something significant for example, a student society or large events. You'd need a track record of having to figure things out without a playbook. You'd need to be comfortable operating in a face-paced environment with autonomy and judgment, without perfect information. You are comfortable using AI tools and use them to draft, summarise, research, and automate.
Strong candidates may come from a high-performing tech start ups, scale ups or consultancy firms.
London-based strongly preferred. There is flexible working hours and wfh arrangements.
What's on offer
The intent is for the right person to move into a larger scope and take on more complex, cross-jurisdictional projects (UK, US, Europe) over time. You'd be working directly with me and the rest of the Ops team consisting of (COO, Senior Finance Manager, Operation Generalist) across everything.
How to register interest
If this sounds like you or someone you know please share a CV and share relevant work samples/links. I'd reach out directly when a strong fit emerges.
Skills Required
- 2+ years in HR, recruiting, operations, or equivalent (or demonstrated leadership of a large student society/events)
- Experience improving HR systems and processes (HRIS, onboarding workflows)
- Proven ability to operate with autonomy and judgement in a fast-paced environment without a playbook
- Comfortable using AI tools to draft, summarize, research, and automate workflows
- Experience shaping talent outreach, employer branding, or running events/hackathons/conferences
- Experience interacting with and supporting technical teams (researchers, engineers)
- London-based strongly preferred
- Background from high-performing tech startups, scaleups, or consultancies
What We Do
Apollo Research is an AI safety organization and evaluations start-up focused on reducing risks from scheming frontier AI. The company conducts fundamental research into the science of scheming and operates a technical evaluation and research platform to detect deception and audit high-risk failure modes in advanced AI systems, with the mission of advancing AI alignment and safeguarding humanity from potential risks of scheming AI.
