Research Partnership Manager

What We're Looking For

The right candidate will be able to manage a high-level of activity across a portfolio of high-priority strategic relationships, drive operational rigor, and serve as a connective layer across business, technical, legal, product, policy, and delivery stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Own partnership delivery timelines, milestones, and cross-team accountabilities.
• Ensure that external deliverables are complementary to internal roadmaps.
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for external partners.
• Shield Research and Business Development leads from administrative friction, enabling focus on high-level strategy.
• Liaise with Product and internal stakeholders, proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks between internal technical teams and external partners.
• Manage a portfolio of active partnerships, maintaining rigor from onboarding through execution.
• Serve as the institutional source of truth for each engagement, ensuring documentation, meeting hygiene, and alignment across diverse teams.
• You own upfront diligence to define and ensure security requirements are upheld over the course of engagements.

Who You Are

• You are an orchestrator who excels at organizing people and processes to drive results, rather than defining feature sets.
• You have strong interpersonal judgment and can mediate between technical teams and external business stakeholders.
• You are a systems-thinker who builds processes to prevent tasks from falling through the cracks.
• You can synthesize complex research blockers into actionable status updates for Commercialization leadership.
• You bring a background in technical program management, research operations, or technical account management within long-cycle R&D environments.