AfterQuery
Research Program Manager
$175K–$191K
San Francisco · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 1-3+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Runs research program operations, including partner collaborations, benchmark releases, project tracking, and progress communications, with hands-on evaluation and potential contributions to research.
What you'll do
- Manage academic and industry collaborations and coordinate benchmark releases from planning through publication.
- Maintain leaderboards and benchmark sites, verify results, and track project progress, resourcing, and bottlenecks.
- Coordinate expert capacity and write clear internal and external program communications.
What they ask for
- 1-3+ years in research operations, technical program management, or a similar role in a fast-moving research or engineering organization.
- Technical background in computer science, machine learning, statistics, or a related field, with working Python and SQL.
- Experience evaluating a product, agent, or foundation model and assessing results; track record running cross-functional programs end to end, including external collaborators.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfort with ambiguity and building lightweight processes from scratch.
Nice to have
- Graduate degree or research experience in a technical field.
- Contributed to a benchmark, dataset, or evaluation project; familiarity with public leaderboards, open research communities, external-partner programs, expert pools, or lightweight dashboards and AI assistants.
Pay
$175K – $191K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus; currency not stated, compensation type not stated.
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Supports foundation model research programs, including benchmark design and evaluation; may contribute to research and co-author publications.
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