About Constellation
The AI safety field lacks the capacity, capability, and cooperation needed to safely navigate transformative AI. Constellation addresses these gaps, by mobilizing new and existing talent (to improve field capacity), incubating and growing projects, teams and organizations (to improve field capability), and convening field contributors (to improve field cooperation). While our overall mission requires work across all the necessary areas needed to address risks from transformative AI, Constellation is especially well positioned to support research, because of our established track record of hosting and collaborating with research organizations. We support research at multiple levels: we host and incubate research organizations, we support individual researchers via our Residency, and we support cohorts of independent researchers as Visiting Fellows (and previously our Astra research fellowship), and by partnering with external research programs like MATS and Anthropic Fellows.
But there’s so much more to do.
There is more talent that can contribute to safety than has been mobilized into the field, and the field as a whole needs to grow to meet the demand for top talent working across all areas.
About this role
We're seeking an exceptional operational leader to oversee all site services for Constellation's research center. This role owns the strategic direction, planning, budgets, and performance for IT, Security & Safety, Site Operations, and Catering. These functions share a common purpose: enabling world-class AI safety research through excellence in our physical and digital environment.
As Director of Site Services, you'll define priorities and allocate resources across your portfolio. (Alternative titles for this role: Director of Workplace Services, Director of Infrastructure Operations.) You'll have high autonomy to shape how these teams work together, with direct accountability for strategic alignment with broader organizational goals. This is a leadership role that requires both strategic altitude and hands-on engagement. You’ll coach domain leads, shape organizational systems, and remain close enough to operational reality to make high-judgment decisions that scale with the mission. Your work directly influences Constellation’s ability to scale programs, host exceptional people, and create an environment where complex work can flourish. You will integrate four mission-critical operational domains into one coherent system. The systems, standards, and culture you establish now will define how Constellation grows over the next several years.
You'll lead a team of ~11 (growing to ~15+ over the next 1-2 years), with four direct reports. Given our size and growth trajectory, this is a true player-coach role: you’ll set direction and standards while also engaging directly where doing so strengthens judgment, accelerates execution, or ensures quality.