People Ops & Events Associate

Apollo Research

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.   This role offers market competitive salary of £50.000- £60,000 and competitive benefits (unlimited vacation, lunch and dinner provided, private medical insurance, paid work trips, retreats, conferences, $1,000 development budget etc.)  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.

Meticulous

WHAT WE DO We’re building the last piece of the puzzle to help companies unlock AI code generation - the part that makes it actually safe to ship. AI is enabling engineers to write code faster than ever before. But software review and testing hasn’t caught up. Engineering leaders are drowning in long software review cycles and more bugs than ever. The bottleneck isn’t writing code anymore - it’s everything that comes after it. We spent 3 years building patented foundational technology to solve this. Since then, we’ve grown 5x year-on-year and now work with some of the most AI-driven engineering teams in the world - Notion, ElevenLabs, Dropbox, Discord, LaunchDarkly, Wiz, CoreWeave, Wealthsimple, and more, and are backed by the same investors behind Twilio, Twitch, Intercom and PagerDuty. Individual investors include the founders of Vercel, Datadog, Segment, Dropbox, the CTO of GitHub, CPO of Adobe, head of engineering at Cursor and many more. Our mission is to radically accelerate the pace of software development by empowering every engineer to ship at the speed their agents write code. This is an opportunity to join a company going through hypergrowth as we scale from millions of annual recurring revenue to $100m ARR. If this excites you, come help us build it! WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY? You will be the first GTM Operator hire working directly under the Chief of Staff and CEO to do whatever it takes to increase revenue. You will work on growth projects across sales, revops, marketing and customer success and learn how to build a top-tier growth machine to sell to developers. The common thread is simple - you’ll experiment and learn how to operate across the full GTM surface, learn what works and build it into something that scales. This is not a strategy role. There’s no team beneath you, no playbook to follow, and no one to delegate the hard stuff to. Examples of projects you will work on * Hunt down pipeline: Own outbound sequences, write and manage newsletter sponsorships, run Google and Reddit ads * Build a dev community: Organize engineering events (dinners, drinks, panels) in NY, London and SF, sponsor relevant OSS projects, figure out where devs love to be and be there * Work on performance & brand marketing: Run conferences, sponsor billboards in SF, grow a LinkedIn following of developers, own G2 reviews * Improve mid-bottom funnel: Create landing pages, produce customer case studies, create viral product launch videos * Revops: Improve the tracking and metrics foundations across sales and marketing so we know what’s working YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE IF * ⭐ You learn fast and can context switch - you have strong analytical thinking and can work from first principles; ambiguity / lack of experience in a domain doesn’t faze you * ⭐ You are highly agentic - you have a bias to action, move fast, take ownership without being asked, and get genuinely frustrated when things stall * ⭐ You’re a hunter - chasing down revenue feels energizing, not exhausting or stressful * ⭐ You want to roll up your sleeves - you enjoy producing the output, not delegating out * ⭐ (Bonus) You already create - you write blogs, post on LinkedIn, build things in your spare time just because you enjoy creating things from scratch THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF * You expect to work regular working hours and never to travel; our team, customers, and investors span SF, London, NYC. * You need a structured environment, clear handoffs, or someone to model the work for you * You’re a strategist looking to delegate the hard work to someone else * You take it personally when work you've invested in gets deprioritized or redirected abruptly REQUIREMENTS * 2+ years of work experience in a fast paced environment (early stage startup, hypergrowth scaleup, MBB consulting, FAANG, Tier 1 bank or similar foundation) * Bonus if you’ve been an early employee (< #20) at a tech startup or have a STEM degree from a Tier 1 university YOU MAY LOOK LIKE THIS * Learning by osmosis: You have been in rooms with decision makers at MBB / Tier 1 bank / FAANG and are now eager to actually execute * Growth / Generalist problem solver: You are currently a founder’s associate or work across any sales, marketing or strategy & ops at an early stage startup and want more ownership * Builder: You are an ex-founder, have started something from scratch whether in uni or as a side hustle (can be a community, a blog, an app), or been part of an incubator (YC, EF, Antler) PERKS ♥️ * 🍲 Unlimited food & drinks in office - including daily lunch as a team, and your own Amazon business account to buy whatever snacks you want for the office. * 💻 A setup you’ll love - everyone has a standing desk, brand new Macbook, your choice of ergonomic peripherals, and a £2k WFH budget to make home just as good * 🏄‍♀️ £300 monthly wellness stipend - Third Space gym, reformer pilates, cold plunge, however you want to keep your best * 🎁 We celebrate you - £400 in gifts on your birthday and work anniversary every year * 🌴 Team offsites - we work and play hard, we’ve done offsites in Italy, Abu Dhabi and local 5-star resorts * 📚 Unlimited book budget - we have a growing in-office library and actively encourage everyone to add to it, whether you want to ramp up your knowledge of software testing, or become a better startup operator! * 📌 In-person, 4 days a week - at our office in Shoreditch * + many more! PEOPLE BEHIND METICULOUS Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Jason Warner (CTO of GitHub), Calvin French-Owen (founder of Segment), Jared Friedman (YC partner and founder of Scribd), Scott Belsky (CPO of Adobe), Arash Ferdowsi (founder of Dropbox) and many others are all personal investors in Meticulous.

Odin

About Odin Odin is building the investment infrastructure for the future of private markets. We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should be putting it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in. Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legals and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits. We’re already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $500m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors. The Role Reporting to our Head of People & Talent, you will play a key role in how Odin runs its office, supports its team, and creates a high-quality experience for the people who interact with us, from employees and new joiners to candidates, founders, investors and wider ecosystem. This is primarily an office, operations, and events role. You’ll help make sure the office runs smoothly day to day, support the team with the practical things that help them do great work, and coordinate events that strengthen Odin’s presence in the startup and private markets ecosystem. It’s also a role with exposure to people operations, onboarding, and internal process improvement. Over time, there is scope to get involved in how we use AI to build smarter ways of working across the function. Your responsibilities will include: * External events and ecosystem activity: Support the logistics for Odin events with customers, founders, investors, and wider ecosystem. This could include booking venues, coordinating suppliers, managing guest lists, supporting comms, and helping with on-the-day set-up and pack-down. * People operations: Support the day-to-day running of our people processes, from expense management to keeping our HRIS and employee data accurate and up to date. * Office management: Keep the office running smoothly day to day. This includes managing supplies, liaising with building management, making sure the space is well-stocked and well-presented, and being the go-to person for practical on-site support. * Team experience: Help create a thoughtful and well-organised day-to-day experience for the team, from making sure the office works well to supporting the moments that help people feel informed, and able to do their best work. * Onboarding: Support a smooth, well-organised experience from offer acceptance to first day, including IT set-up, equipment, office preparation, and cross-functional coordination. * Broader People and Talent projects: Contribute across engagement, employer brand, operator network, and community-building initiatives as priorities shift. You’ll play a hands-on role in how we grow, nurture, and strengthen the communities around Odin About You We’re looking for someone exceptionally organised, resourceful, and proactive to help build a high-performance culture at Odin and support the events that define us in the founder and investor communities we serve. The job is demanding. There are more than a few things to do at any moment, and we need someone who can take ownership, move fast, and get the details right without being asked twice. Must-Have * You see the brand in every detail. Events, systems, swag, follow-up emails - they’re all just different ways that Odin shows up for the people who interact with it. * You have coordinated something logistically complex, whether professionally or otherwise. * You care about people experience. You notice when something could feel better for someone, whether that is an onboarding flow, an event, or a process, and you want to fix it. * You are energised by variety and by people. Whether you are setting up for an event or fixing a broken process, you show up with the same level of care and enthusiasm. * You handle a busy inbox without dropping things, juggle ten conversations in a morning, and can hold your own with a demanding founder or investor. * You stay calm under pressure, and are persuasive when it counts. If a supplier flakes the night before or the venue is double booked, you handle it. Nice to Have * Exposure to events or people operations * You have used AI tools in a hands-on way, building automations, workflows, or anything beyond basic prompting. * You are someone who can actively identify where LLMs and automation can improve how we work, and help build it. This could be workflows, people dashboards, onboarding automations, or internal tools. If you are someone obsessed with removing the most manual, time-consuming parts of running a people function, we want to hear from you. We know this role covers a lot of ground, and you may not tick every box. If you haven't had the chance to work with AI or LLMs yet but you are exceptionally organised, thrive in a varied role, and have experience organising events, managing logistics and supporting people, we would still love to hear from you. The Hiring Process 1. Initial Call: Meet with Imani, our Head of People & Talent, to discuss the role, your experience, and ensure alignment (20 mins) 2. Deep Dive Interview: An in-depth conversation with Imani to unpack your experience and motivations (1 hour) 3. Workshop: Spend time with Mary & Imani to assess how well you could do the role in practice (1 hour) 4. Final Interviews: Meet with Mary and Paddy, our Founders, for an in-depth discussion about our values and vision (2 hours) Salary The salary band for this role is £30,000 - £38000 + equity options. During the hiring process, we'll assess your experience and capabilities using our internal levelling framework to determine your starting salary. Working at Odin We’re a London-based team, and for this role being in the office makes a real difference. The speed and intensity we operate at make in-person collaboration crucial, and we expect at least three days per week in the office. Given the nature of the role and cadence of events, there will be periods occasional where you may be in person up to five days per week or required to flex hours to be available for events that could run during the evening or fall on the weekend. Benefits * Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments, and access to Spill for mental health support * Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health, therapy or fitness * Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and partner leave * Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options * Time Off: 25 days annual leave, 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total) * Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally * Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave