Program Manager, AI-native Physicist Fellowship

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Recruit and identify outstanding fellows, researchers, and technical talent on a global scale.

• Oversee and manage the comprehensive fellowship application, evaluation, and selection process.

• Collaborate and engage with the external advisory committee and reviewers.

• Work closely with the wider FirstPrinciples ecosystem's technical and research teams to support fellows throughout their journey.

• Serve as the primary operational contact for fellows during their fellowship experience.

• Organize programming for cohorts, including workshops, onboarding, and communications.

• Assist in refining program operations, processes, evaluation criteria, and reporting as the program develops.

• Monitor and report on program metrics, timelines, budgets, deliverables, and cohort progress.

• Cultivate and maintain relationships within the AI and science ecosystem (research labs, universities, communities, conferences, frontier AI organizations, etc.).

• Discover emerging researchers, communities, and workflows at the forefront of AI-native science.

• Contribute to shaping and disseminating the long-term operational playbook for AI-native scientific initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in program management, operations, recruitment, community-building, talent programs, or ecosystem development.

• Excellent communicator capable of engaging effectively with researchers, technical teams, and external partners.

• Highly organized and adept at managing multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and developing processes from the ground up.

• Strong judgment and a high level of ownership mentality.

• Possess a bias toward action. You act swiftly, proactively solve problems, and navigate environments with limited precedents.

• Experience with technical or research-intensive teams is a significant advantage.

• Required familiarity with frontier AI, scientific research, academia, startups, or technical communities. The ideal candidate has experience across multiple of these domains.

• Bonus points for those who have a natural inclination towards identifying exceptional talent, emerging communities, or unconventional thinkers before they are recognized by larger institutions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contribute to shaping one of the first large-scale AI-native scientific fellowship programs.

• Collaborate closely with pioneering researchers, builders, and technical teams exploring the future of scientific discovery.

• Work at the intersection of AI, research, and frontier science.

• Develop programs that could significantly impact how future scientific research is conducted.

• Help define a new category of scientific infrastructure for the AI era.