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Salary: GBP 65,000 - 85,000 / annual
DatologyAI is hiring its first operations person in London to build the UK presence from the ground up. This is a founding role where you'll own multiple operational functions: standing up the London office end-to-end, partnering on UK hiring and compliance, managing payroll and benefits, running UK events, and maintaining immigration sponsor license compliance.
You'll work closely with the first London research and engineering hire and collaborate with People and Finance teams at HQ in San Mateo, CA across time zones. Key responsibilities include:
- Stand up the London office end-to-end: space, lease negotiation, vendors, equipment, insurance, health and safety, and security
- Partner with US recruiting team on UK hiring, owning local mechanics of contracts, background checks, and onboarding
- Run UK payroll with US Finance team, including HMRC filings, EMI options, pension auto-enrollment, and statutory leave
- Select and manage UK benefits, advising on market differences from US package
- Run UK events presence: team events, offsites, conference logistics, and recruiting events
- Work with outside immigration counsel and US People team to maintain Sponsor License and ensure UKVI compliance
About DatologyAI: The company has built a state-of-the-art data curation suite that automatically curates and optimizes petabytes of data for model training. Their technology can reduce training time and cost by 7-40x, increase model performance as if trained on >10x more raw data, and enable smaller models to outperform larger ones with far less compute. The company raised $57.5M (Seed and Series A) from investors including Felicis Ventures, Radical Ventures, Amplify Partners, Microsoft, Amazon, and AI visionaries like Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of relevant experience in operations, People operations, or office management
- Experience spinning up a UK office or entity for a company headquartered elsewhere, ideally a US company
- Hands-on with UK payroll, pension auto-enrollment, and statutory leave
- Clear written communicator across time zones, responsive to emails
- Collaborative, humble, and able to own high-impact projects end-to-end
- Must be a British Citizen or hold Pre Settled or Settled Status in the UK (required to serve as local visa officer)
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience taking a company from employer of record to its own UK entity
- Held Key Personnel role on sponsor license and been through UKVI compliance visit
- Experience at venture-backed technology company, especially under 200 people
- Background running conference logistics for technical audience
