Head of Recruiting
80,000 Hours
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Full Time 🔄 Rolling Applications
We’re looking for someone to build and lead 80,000 Hours’ recruiting function from scratch. We’d like to make 15–25 strong hires each year through a recruiting team. Currently, we make around 10 hires — each of which represents a very large investment in capacity from team leads — which is a major bottleneck on our growth. Our ideal candidate can solve the problems, hire the team, and build the systems needed to pull this off. So we expect this to be a challenging role which will require substantial relevant experience.
We’re looking for someone who has experience with:
The personnel challenges faced by organisations working in EA or AI — you’ve either worked at an EA organisation, an AI safety organisation, or have otherwise developed a strong understanding of the landscape of hiring challenges these organisations face.
Professional recruiting — this could be as an internally-facing recruiter or as a headhunter. Recruiting for your own team could be enough, especially if you’ve been especially interested in recruitment along the way.
Leading a team — you’ve managed people before and understand what it takes to build and lead a function.
We expect that you’ll initially report to Brenton Mayer (COO) and then transition to reporting to Sashika Coxhead (Head of People Operations) when she returns from maternity leave. If you meet all three of the criteria mentioned above, we’d really love to hear from you through our EOI form.
If you meet two and would be excited about recruiting work at 80,000 Hours, we’d also invite you to submit a response — we’d like to keep track of potential candidates who could be a part of a recruiting team at 80K here.
About the Role
As 80,000 Hours’ Head of Recruiting, you would:
Oversee the construction of our recruiting function, scoping and building the systems needed to provide effective support to other teams.
Develop our recruiting strategy, figuring out what to focus on in order to successfully attract the best talent to 80,000 Hours.
Grow and manage your recruiting team, managing further hiring of recruiting staff and helping decide the allocation of current operations staff.
Manage hiring rounds across 80,000 Hours, providing valuable logistical and strategic support to other teams’ hiring plans.
Salary & Benefits
This is a permanent, full-time role — our staff can work flexible hours and we encourage staff to work whatever schedule (consistent with full-time status) will allow them to be most personally effective.
We are open to both London-based (preferred) or remote applicants. We can sponsor UK visa applications as needed.
The salary will vary based on experience, and will be calculated according to a formula that is transparent to all primary staff at 80,000 Hours, which factors in experience, level of responsibility, and performance.
A candidate matching our criteria would most likely start on between £65–100,000, depending on the quantity and relevance of experience.
Our benefits include:
The option to use 10% of your time for self-development
25 days of paid holiday, plus bank holidays
Pension scheme/retirement plan with employer contributions
Private medical insurance
Long-term disability insurance
Up to 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Childcare allowance for children under five
Coverage of work-related expenses like travel to conferences and office equipment
£5,000 annual mental health support allowance
£5,000 annual self-development budget
Shower facilities, a small gym, and free food provided if you work at our London office
To express interest, please submit this form — it should only take about 10 minutes. We’ll periodically review submissions, so please apply early. We’ll reach out if we think you may be a great fit for the role.
Note: This is an expression of interest rather than a formal job opening. We have a high bar for this role and will only progress to a formal hiring round if we identify exceptional candidates.
