Program Manager, Research

FutureSearch; United States; A distancia; USD 130.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Fully remote

Travel for in-person meetups

Flexible hours

Equity in seed-stage startup

Full benefits: healthcare, parental/mé

Descripción de la vacante

FutureSearch is seeking a Program Manager, Research to coordinate a small team of brilliant scientists in a frontier AI program. You will balance fast-moving research directions, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations across the VP Engineering, VP Research, and CEO.

The role is fully remote with occasional travel to meet partners in London, SF, and Berlin, and requires aligning research delivery with ambitious external deadlines while maintaining high-quality outcomes.

Formación

• Strong technical background.
• Experience delivering high-stakes research under time pressure.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and empathy for dissent.
• Track record working under uncertainty and ambiguity.
• High attention to detail in fast-paced environment.
• Ambition to influence frontier AI direction.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate research activities of a small team of researchers.
• Balance tradeoffs and set effective research directions.
• Negotiate deliverables with stakeholders and executives.
• Collaborate with VP of Engineering, VP of Research, and CEO.

Conocimientos

Technical background

Delivery under pressure

Communication skills

Negotiation

Empathy

Ambiguity tolerance

Attention to detail

Influence frontier AI

Descripción del empleo

Описание:

The Program Manager, Research is responsible for coordinating the research of a small team of brilliant research scientists at FutureSearch. Research at FutureSearch is on the frontier of the fastest moving technology in human history. We learn new things every day, and we adjust our research strategy on that cadence. But world‑class research requires deep strategic foresight and persistence. We also regularly have ambitious external deadlines we must meet, with many tradeoffs in what makes the research valuable. And brilliant researchers have strong opinions - as the saying goes, if you ask 3 researchers a question, you'll get 4 opinions. Balancing these factors is an enormous challenge. This Program Manager, Research must rapidly make excellent judgment calls balancing these constraints. These judgment calls - to start up a new direction, to wind down an existing direction, to change the nature of a deliverable - are high stakes and will require adroit negotiation with stakeholders. The Program Manager, Research works closely with the VP of Engineering, VP of Research, and the CEO.

Требования:

• A strong technical background
• Experience delivering high‑stakes research at high quality, and under time pressure
• Excellent communication skills, high tolerance for disagreement, proficiency in negotiation and compromise, and high empathy for those who disagree
• A track record of successful operation under great uncertainty and ambiguity
• High consciousness and attention to detail in fast‑paced environment
• Great ambition in positively influencing the direction of frontier AI

Условия:

• FutureSearch is fully remote.
• We concentrate in London, with SF and Berlin as our next most traveled work locations.
• We prioritize traveling to meet at minimum 6 times per year, usually in or near London.
• As a remote company, we have flexible hours, with required synchronous attendance for critical US - Europe overlap hours (~7-10am Pacific).
• We are a seed stage startup, and we offer higher-than-average equity for startups of our stage.
• We offer full benefits, depending on the country, including healthcare, paternity/maternity leave, equipment, and travel expenses.
• Salary range is $130k - $190k for US roles, and adjusted for the local labor market outside the US.