Location: Remote; West coast is a must (possibility of occasional onsite visits with Burlingame or Seattle offices)
Duration: 9+ months contract with possibility of extension.
Max Pay rate: $105/hr on W2
Job Description:
Research Program Managers build and scale global research programs to strengthen the impact of our research teams. We drive efficiency, cultivate relationships, increase knowledge sharing, and build capacity within our organization to enable Researchers to do their most impactful work.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of relevant or related experience as a project manager with proven experience managing research communities
- Excellent organization skills, with the ability to multi-task and juggle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interacting with and influencing researchers, leaderships, and/or cross functional stakeholders with the ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences
- Ability to be successful in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that requires independent time management, task prioritization, flexibility, and keen ability to identify problems and proactively work towards solutions
- Experience building relationships with peers and senior stakeholders and collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple locations
- Experience communicating with data to drive change
- Track record of operating independently and taking initiative, embracing ambiguity, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner
- Experience working cross functionally with finance, procurement and external vendors
- Experience working in vendor management
Must-Have Skills
- Research Operations background is a must, managing executional research programs and/or research benchmark programs. We don't need purely researchers- we need research operations.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills; time management too
- Comfortable with excel and budgeting & tracking
- Dashboard or SQL experience
Education: