Date Posted: 07/31/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 504997
Industry: Social Media
Job Title: Senior Program Manager - Strategic Academic Partnerships
Job Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA, 94025
Work Model: Onsite
Shift: General Business Hours
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 80.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 97.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: MS Project, MS Word, VISIO
Experience Desired: Program/project management experience (5+ yrs); Demonstrated experience managing senior external stakeholders (5+ yrs); Experience in academic relations, university partnerships, fellowship programs, or expert-community (5+ yrs); Experience working with AI/ML research teams or in an AI research organization (5+ yrs); Track record of representing an organization externally at institutional events (5+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
Degrees/certifications required:
• Bachelor’s Degree
Must-Have Skills:
• 5+ years of program/project management experience, including building and scaling complex programs
• Demonstrated experience managing senior external stakeholders, e.g., executives, senior faculty, institutional or clinical leaders, or equivalent high-status partners
• Track record of relationship-driven influence and partnership-building in an external, multi-institution context
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and design processes that scale
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentational communication; credible engaging domain leaders one-on-one
Preferred Skills:
• Experience in academic relations, university partnerships, fellowship programs, or expert-community programs. Familiarity with a regulated or specialized vertical (e.g., healthcare/clinical)
• Experience working with AI/ML research teams or in an AI research organization
• Track record of representing an organization externally at institutional events
• Experience standing up a new program from pilot to scale. Advanced degree in a relevant field
Years of overall experience required:
• 5+ years of program/project management experience, including building and scaling complex programs
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to build and own Client FAIR's senior expert fellowship program. This role manages relationships with the most senior domain experts in academia and turns those relationships into accelerating AI adoption in clinical and scientific domains. This is a heavily external-facing role. You will spend much of your time engaging senior experts in academia, and you will partner internally with data operations, product, legal and research teams.
Responsibilities:
• Design and run a named-fellowship structure that confers high-status recognition
• Build the program's external positioning and reputation in target verticals
• Own the end-to-end experience and relationship for senior fellows (division chiefs, senior faculty, institutional leaders)
• Manage the cohort lifecycle from identification, early engagement, and engagement of experts with internal researchers
• Cultivate senior fellows as advocates who drive frontline adoption of Client models - **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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