Program Manager III

Program Manager III

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Onsite) Duration: 6 Months (potential extension) Pay Range: $84 - $94/hr.

Top 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) with a track record of relationship-driven influence and partnership-building in a multi-institution context.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and design scalable processes, with excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Company: Our client is a Fortune 500 multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to build and own FAIR's senior expert fellowship program. This role manages relationships with the most senior domain experts in academia and turns those relationships into efforts to accelerate 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 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 models.

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.

Nice-to-Have 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.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of program/project management experience, including building and scaling complex programs.
• Education: Bachelor's degree minimum.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching. IND123