Operations manager
Mantic
- Camden Town, North West London
- Permanent
- Full-time
is an AI startup based in London. * Mantic's mission is to solve judgmental forecasting and radically improve decision-making. Judgmental forecasting is about making predictions in the absence of good statistical models, often on the topics of geopolitics, business & economics, policy, technology, culture. Human
use reasoning and research, and we're building our AI systems to do the same. * We have an unusually strong technical team, coming from previous work at Google DeepMind, Citadel, Foresight Data Machines, the VGG group at the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.
- Our latest system is state of the art in terms of forecasting accuracy. We are currently competitive in an ongoing forecasting tournament against humans, including pro forecasters.
- We plan to go to market with a category-defining forecasting product, selling to the private and public sectors.
- We are looking for our first operations hire.
- The scope, title, and seniority of the role will depend on the candidate's experience. If you're coming from a senior role, we can take that into account.
- There is opportunity for a high degree of ownership.
- Activities could include:
- Hiring, and improving Mantic's HR
- Making deals with new data suppliers
- Finding new customers
- Managing special projects
- Liaising with external accountants and lawyers during fundraising
- Liaising with external website developers during comms launches
- 1-10 years' relevant experience
- Startup experience (not a strict requirement)
- Mission-driven
- Strong work ethic
- Able to work autonomously
- Personable
- This is an in-person role, 5 days per week.
- The Mantic offices are in Camden, on the King's Cross side.
- Generous equity.
- Salary dependent on experience, but above average for startups of our size in London.
- Join a world class team, working together on one of the world's most exciting problems