Associate and Senior Associate roles with the Events Team Full Time

We’re hiring for several roles into our Events teams (EA Global, EAGx, and AI Events) at the Associate and Senior Associate level. Rather than filling a single fixed role, we’re running a combined round and will calibrate seniority and scope based on candidates’ strengths.
About CEA

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world’s most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks.

Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work.

We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined.

In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards.

EA Global (EAG) is CEA’s flagship conference series; every year, we run three conferences in San Francisco, London and New York, attracting over 3,000 attendees. The EAG team runs the production of the full event from content programming, admissions, and production for several large conferences each year. Coefficient Giving’s survey of people working on global catastrophic risks found that one third reported EAG and EAGx helped them significantly as they figured out what to do with their careers.

EAGx events are two-to-three day long community-organized conferences, like TEDx to TED. Local organizers run content, admissions, and production. We also introduced a new event format, EA Summits, in 2024, which are part of the EAGx portfolio. EA Summits are one-day events designed to introduce new audiences to the ideas behind EA and help identify promising new talent. CEA provides funding, infrastructure, and advisory support and the EAGx team manages organizer relationships and ensures events meet our quality bar. In 2026, we are running 10 EAGx events and at least 23 EA Summits across more than 26 countries.

AI Events organizes the Summit on Existential Security (SES) and related high-trust convenings for the AI safety and governance ecosystems. These events help accelerate the people best-positioned to help safely navigate existential risks from AI through strategic updates, and accelerating work via new projects, hires, and collaborations.

Across all three sub-teams, we’re looking for people who:

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  Take ownership. You consider your work and delivering your team’s mission as your responsibility – you spot what needs doing and do it without waiting to be asked.

  
  

• Can hold a lot at once. These roles all involve many simultaneous workstreams. You stay organized, keep things moving, don’t drop balls, and communicate when you need to reprioritize.

• Combine strategic thinking with strong execution. You can think clearly about what good community-building looks like and then make it happen by adjusting our product and setting up new initiatives.

  
  
  

• Sprint when it counts. Events have hard deadlines. You’re willing to go heads-down around the time of event delivery.

• Are energized by empowering others. A lot of the job is making it easier for attendees, organizers, and colleagues to do their best work.

  
  
  

• Want to learn how to run world-class events at scale. Working on our team is an opportunity to develop a valuable skill set alongside people with many years of event delivery experience.

Since the underlying skill set is similar across all three teams, we encourage you to indicate interest in any team that feels like a plausible fit. We’ll evaluate you across your preferred teams through a single process, and will finalize placement later in the round.

The EAG team runs several of CEA’s largest, most selective conferences each year. We’re looking for excellent executors who can handle a high volume of operational work reliably and well. Depending on your strengths, your role might lean more toward systems and operations or toward content and programming support. Work might include:

• Supporting the admissions process, including reviewing applications and travel support requests

  
  

• Administering event systems including Swapcard, Slack, and Salesforce, and troubleshooting issues

• Supporting content and programming – coordinating speakers, choosing priority topics, and maintaining the systems that support curation

  
  

• Managing the team inbox and responding to attendee inquiries

• Assisting with onsite logistics including registration, session management, and real-time attendee support

  
  

The EAGx team supports a global network of community-organized events. EAGx roles have more emphasis on relationship management – you’ll be the main point of contact for organizers across multiple events and geographies simultaneously. Work might include:

• Serving as the primary point of contact for EAGx organizers throughout the event lifecycle

  
  

• Reviewing and giving feedback on event plans, content lineups, and admissions processes

• Coordinating logistics and infrastructure – including access to our event app – across multiple simultaneous events

  
  

• Tracking event outcomes and synthesizing learnings to improve how CEA supports organizers over time

• Supporting onsite production for EAGx events where CEA staff are present

  
  

The AI Events team runs high-trust, intimate convenings for people working on AI safety and governance. The skill profile here is similar to EAG – strong execution, good systems thinking – but with a preference for candidates who are particularly interested in supporting the AI safety field. You don’t need deep technical background; you should just be curious about and engaged with the work our attendees are doing. Work might include:

• Supporting our production team with event delivery

  
  

• Writing bespoke attendee communications to support with specific asks and issues

• Maintaining information about the event on Swapcard and other platforms

  
  

• Supporting technical production onsite, including AV and room setups

In addition to the qualities listed as ‘common features’ above, you might be a great fit if you:

• Manage and implement projects effectively. You’ve successfully worked on projects that required planning, attention to detail, time management, and sustained effort. These projects don’t need to be events.

• Are eager to do object-level, non-glamorous work. For you, this kind of work can be exciting or feel rewarding, especially if you’re interested in pursuing a career in operations long-term.

  
  
  

• Are highly organized and detail-oriented. You build systems to stay on top of things and rarely let small details slip.

• Can juggle multiple tasks at once. You’re not easily overwhelmed, and excel at managing your time and focus across competing priorities.

  
  
  

• Are an excellent written communicator. You write clearly and adjust your tone and content for different audiences.

• Are responsive to feedback. You actively seek out feedback, take it on board, and use it to improve your work.

  
  
  

• Are interested in EA. You don’t need to be deeply embedded in the community, but you should care about the mission and be curious about the work CEA does.

For more senior candidates (Senior Associate level): We’d expect a track record of independent ownership – running projects or relationships with minimal oversight – and comfort navigating complex stakeholder dynamics.

• This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants able to work between US Pacific Time and CET. We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you’d have access to.

• Start date: August / September; flexible for the right candidate.

  
  

• Reports to: David Solar (EAG), Niki Kesseler (EAGx), or Ollie Rodriguez (AI Events)

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  Compensation

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    Associate

    • US: total compensation package of $72,129, comprising a base salary of $65,572, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution.

      
      

    • UK: total compensation package of £43,392, comprising a base salary of £39,448, and a 10% pension contribution.

    • Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package

      
      
    
    

  • Senior Associate

    • US: total compensation package of $90,026, comprising a base salary of $81,842, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution.

      
      

    • UK: total compensation package of £54,159, comprising a base salary of £49,235, and a 10% pension contribution.

    • Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package

      
      
    
    

  • Benefits in the US/UK: include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more.

  
  

• This role will involve travel. There are likely 4–10 trips per year to conferences and team retreats, including some international travel. This will be on the higher end for the EAGx team, and on the lower end for EAG and AI Events.

  
  
  

We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact [email protected].

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We expect the process to include the following steps, subject to minor changes:

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  Application

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  Test task 1

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  Short interview

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  Test task 2

• Final interviews (3–4, non-sequential)

• Possible 1–2 day work trial

  
  

• Reference checks

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