Location: Remote (significant working-hour overlap with UTC-6/7 and UTC+1/2).

Type: Full-time Preferred (Part-time possible).

Compensation: 30-40 USD per hour, based on experience and adjusted for cost of living in the candidate's location.

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Applications before 12:00pm AoE on June 1, 2026 will have preference.

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Apart Research seeking a Research Project Manager to guide globally distributed AI safety research teams through our Studio and Fellowship programs 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. You'll conduct kickoffs, review proposals and drafts, track compliance with deliverables, and connect researchers with the expertise they need. Beyond supporting individual teams, you'll refine our workflows and systems to help Apart scale effectively, balancing strong execution with strategic thinking to identify opportunities for improvement.

Core Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• Project management experience with multiple concurrent projects and stakeholders