Research Project Manager

Apart Research is looking for a Research Project Manager to guide globally distributed AI safety research teams through our Fellowships targeting peer-reviewed publication.

You'll be the primary point-of-contact for these teams, providing direction, feedback, and accountability while ensuring projects stay on track. This is a hands-on role combining direct team support with process management, where you'll conduct kickoffs, review proposals and drafts, track compliance with deliverables, and connect researchers with the expertise they need.

• Serve as primary point-of-contact for research teams throughout their project lifecycle
• Conduct kickoff calls with new teams, explaining Apart processes and answering participant questions
• Provide feedback on research artifacts, such as experimental writeups, research drafts, and codebases
• Facilitate team connections with relevant subject matter experts
• Mentor researchers through the (ML) academic publishing process, including assistance on conference and workshop cycles, rebuttals, etc.
• Provide progress updates to leadership and cross-functional teams
• Support literature reviews, cross-team collaboration, and new methodology development as needed
• Respond to inquiries from prospective participants
• Support impact tracking as research is published or receives recognition
• Daily Operations activities including tracking team compliance, review weekly progress forms and deliverable deadlines, provide compute API Keys, make reimbursements, etc.

• Project management experience with multiple concurrent projects and stakeholders
• Experience supporting distributed/remote teams across different time zones
• Familiarity with academic publishing process (peer review, conferences, journal submissions)
• Strong written communication skills with ability to provide constructive, actionable feedback
• Proactive problem-solver who identifies issues before they escalate
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make sound judgment calls independently
• Technical aptitude: Quick to learn new platforms and capable of understanding technical research concepts

To apply for this role, please fill out the application on the link below.