Research Program Manager (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; onsite

Salary: $180K–$400K plus equity

Company

hirify.global transforms critical institutions in healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and other industries through applied AI, combining forward-deployed engineering, product, and research expertise with its Mosaic toolkit and strategic partnerships.

What you will do

• Own the research organization’s operating rhythm, including roadmap tracking, milestone check-ins, status reporting, and recurring planning rituals.
• Track dependencies across world modeling, forecasting, user modeling, and optimization research tracks and surface risks proactively.
• Manage allocation of shared compute, data access, and research engineering resources; escalate trade-offs when needed.
• Maintain an accurate view of customer-facing and internal research commitments and progress against them.
• Coordinate timelines, internal review, and compliance for external research outputs without owning research content.
• Build trackers, documentation, dashboards, and communication systems connecting Research Leads, Embedded Product Managers, and Applied AI Engineers.

Requirements

• Prior experience as a program manager or technical program manager supporting a research, machine learning, or similarly deeply technical organization with multiple parallel workstreams.
• Ability to read and reason about technical research content well enough to track dependencies and risks without conducting or directing the research.
• Strong operational rigor, including proactively building tracking systems and identifying dependencies before they become blockers.
• Excellent communication skills for translating status and risk between research leads, engineers, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and building an operating model in a young organization without a finished playbook.
• Proven record of keeping complex, multi-team technical work on track and shipping, measured by outcomes rather than activity.
• Willingness to take extreme ownership of the organization’s operational health while not directing the underlying research.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-first environment focused on in-person collaboration, autonomy, trust, and outcomes over outputs.
• Competitive compensation, equity, 401(k) matching, comprehensive health and family benefits, and daily lunch.
• Values include ambitious problem-solving, customer outcomes, high-agency decision-making, direct communication, execution intensity, and kindness.
• Equal opportunity employer providing reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law.
• The role is not limited to a 9-to-5 schedule and emphasizes ownership of meaningful customer-impacting work.