Open position: Director of UK Operations
Topos UK is hiring for a Director of Operations. What does this mean? Read more to find out.
Like an aspiring superb lyrebird who’s just a bit slow, I find myself echoing the call of Brendan almost three and a half years ago:
In a research-focussed organisation, researchers often emerge as the stars. After all, they develop the breakthrough ideas, write the papers, prototype the technologies — and they are the most visible, meeting other experts and giving public talks. Topos, however, is more than just a collection of researchers: we are a community pioneering a new, international, and interdisciplinary tech organisation. We do this to help create a future where the systems around us, large and small, allow every member of society to flourish.
As we explore in our research, healthy systems require careful balancing of each part and the ways they fit together, communicate, and evolve. While our researchers study the fundamental nature of these ideas and how they inform construction of powerful and prosocial technologies, it’s our operations team that embodies this work day-in-day-out at Topos.
I’ve been working for the past two years on setting up an office based in Oxford, UK. This has been made possible, of course, only by the help of an incredible research team here — David Jaz, Owen Lynch, Xiaoyan Li, Jason Brown, and José Siqueira — but importantly also by our wonderful operations and administration group: Beth Williams, Molly White, Tish Tanski (and external help from the team at Impact Ops); all supported by Brendan Fong. I’m incredibly grateful to all these people (and more) for trusting me with this role, but now we’ve reached a point where operations, finance, systems, strategy, culture need a dedicated senior UK lead, so we’re launching a call for a Director of UK Operations.
Call for applications: Director of UK Operations
Applications close on the 20th of October. You can find all the information in the call for applications, as well as details on how to apply. If you know anybody who might be interested, then please do forward on the link!
p.s. I’m not leaving Topos, just partially sidestepping into some different responsibilities here. #newyearnewyou